Granfield company is considering eliminating its backpack division, which reported an operating loss for the recent year of $41,400. the division sales for the year were $948,600 and the variable costs were $469,000. the fixed costs of the division were $521,000. if the backpack division is dropped, 40% of the fixed costs allocated to that division could be eliminated. the impact on granfield's operating income for eliminating this business segment would be:

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.