Suppose the government decides to fight obesity in america by imposing an excise tax based on the saturated fat content of food. the most likely effect of this tax would be to:

Slimwood corporation made sales of $ 725 million during 2018. of this amount, slimwood collected cash for $ 670 million. the company's cost of goods sold was $ 300 million, and all other expenses for the year totaled $ 400 million. also during 2018, slimwood paid $ 420 million for its inventory and $ 285 million for everything else. beginning cash was $ 110 million. carter's top management is interviewing you for a job and they ask two questions: (a) how much was carter's net income for 2018? (b) how much was carter's cash balance at the end of 2016? you will get the job only if you answer both questions correctly.

When a company produces and sells x thousand units per week, its total weekly profit is p thousand dollars, where upper p equals startfraction 800 x over 100 plus x squared endfraction . the production level at t weeks from the present is x equals 4 plus 2 t. find the marginal profit, startfraction dp over dx endfraction and the time rate of change of profit, startfraction dp over dt endfraction . how fast (with respect of time) are profits changing when tequals8?

Atennis club charges a monthly membership fee of $150 and charges it members $10 per hour to use a court. there's also $500 fee to become a member. stella joined the tennis club last spring, and she has been a member for 5 months. she has been playing 10 hours of tennis each month. stella values an hour of her time at $20. during a boring afternoon meeting, stella thinks about reserving a court to work on her serve for an hour tonight. what's stella's opportunity cost of working on her serve for an hour?