During the pandemic in 2020, most but not all restaurants were required by the government to close. Also during the same time, fewer people decided to get restaurant meals. You will be asked several questions about this situation. Do not draw a graph; instead please respond to the questions in an essay form. Explain how the pandemic affected the market for restaurant meals. Explain the effect on the equilibrium price and quantity of restaurants meals. Suppose that there had been no government regulations closing the restaurants and that restaurant workers would have continued to work as normal. Explain what then would have been the effect on the equilibrium price, the equilibrium quantity, and the efficient quantity of restaurant meals.

20. sinclair company's single product has a selling price of $25 per unit. last year the company reported a profit of $20,000 and variable expenses totaling $180,000. the product has a 40% contribution margin ratio. because of competition, sinclair company will be forced in the current year to reduce its selling price by $2 per unit. how many units must be sold in the current year to earn the same profit as was earned last year? a. 15,000 units b. 12,000 units c. 16,500 units d. 12,960 units

In year 1, the bennetts' 25-year-old daughter, jane, is a full-time student at an out-of-state university but she plans to return home after the school year ends. in previous years, jane has never worked and her parents have always been able to claim her as a dependent. in year 1, a kind neighbor offers to pay for all of jane's educational and living expenses. which of the following statements is most accurate regarding whether jane's parents would be allowed to claim an exemption for jane in year 1 assuming the neighbor pays for all of jane's support? a.no, jane must include her neighbor's gift as income and thus fails the gross income test for a qualifying relative.b.yes, because she is a full-time student and does not provide more than half of her own support, jane is considered her parent's qualifying child.c.no, jane is too old to be considered a qualifying child and fails the support test of a qualifying relative.d.yes, because she is a student, her absence is considered as "temporary." consequently she meets the residence test and is a considered a qualifying child of the bennetts.

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?