A company is trying to decide whether it should produce good X in the U. S. or in Mexico. Suppose a U. S. worker earns $15 per hour and a worker in Mexico earns $4 per hour. Also suppose that the marginal physical product (MPP) of the U. S. worker is 12 units of good X and the MPP of the Mexican worker is 3 units of good X. Refer to Situation 27-1. If good X is produced in the U. S. the output per $1 of cost would be than if good X were produced in Mexico, thus it would be best to produce good X ina. higher; Mexico. b. lower; Mexico. c. higher; the United States. d. lower; the United States.

Southeastern bell stocks a certain switch connector at its central warehouse for supplying field service offices. the yearly demand for these connectors is 15,000 units. southeastern estimates its annual holding cost for this item to be $25 per unit. the cost to place and process an order from the supplier is $75. the company operates 300 days per year, and the lead time to receive an order from the supplier is 2 working days.a) find the economic order quantity.b) find the annual holding costs.c) find the annual ordering costs.d) what is the reorder point?

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.

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