Piechocki Corporation manufactures and sells a single product. The company uses units as the measure of activity in its budgets and performance reports. During May, the company budgeted for 6,300 units, but its actual level of activity was 6,250 units. The company has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for May: Data used in budgeting:

Fixed element per month Variable element per unit
Revenue - $ 33.80

Direct labor $ 0 $ 5.80
Direct materials 0 13.40
Manufacturing overhead 33,000 1.30
Selling and administrative expenses 25,100 0.50
Total expenses $ 58,100 $ 21.00

Actual results for May:

Revenue $ 212,300
Direct labor $ 35,730
Direct materials $ 85,600
Manufacturing overhead $ 41,500
Selling and administrative expenses $ 30,430

The activity variance for direct labor in May would be closest to

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?