Imagine you are experiencing a major conflict in your place of work. The team with which you are working at the time has split into two factions and simply cannot see eye to eye. Each side feels like the other is not listening and does not value the other's perspective. A mediator has been asked to step in and help with the problem. Of the five strategies for conflict resolution discussed in the lesson, which strategy or strategies do you think the mediator should use? Why? If you think a combination of two or more strategies would work best, explain which should be used and why you think both of them would work better than just one.

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.