Indicate whether each of the following companies is primarily a service, retail, or manufacturing business. If you are unfamiliar with the company, use the Internet to locate the company's home page or use the finance Web site of Yahoo. 1. Alcoa Inc. 2. Boeing 3. Caterpillar 4. Citigroup Inc. 5. CVS 6. Dow Chemical Company 7. eBay Inc. 8. FedEx 9. Ford Motor Company 10. Gap Inc. 11. H

This exercise illustrates that poor quality can affect schedules and costs. a manufacturing process has 130 customer orders to fill. each order requires one component part that is purchased from a supplier. however, typically, 3% of the components are identified as defective, and the components can be assumed to be independent. (a) if the manufacturer stocks 130 components, what is the probability that the 130 orders can be filled without reordering components? (b) if the manufacturer stocks 132 components, what is the probability that the 130 orders can be filled without reordering components? (c) if the manufacturer stocks 135 components, what is the probability that the 130 orders can be filled without reordering components?

David consumes two things: gasoline (q 1) and bread (q 2). david's utility function is u(q 1, q 2)equals70q 1 superscript 0.5 baseline q 2 superscript 0.5. let the price of gasoline be p 1, the price of bread be p 2, and income be y. derive david's demand curve for gasoline. david's demand for gasoline is q 1equals nothing. (properly format your expression using the tools in the palette. hover over tools to see keyboard shortcuts. e.g., a subscript can be created with the _ character.)

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?