ECN 203 Lecture 14: ECN 203 Homework 2AK SP15

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Answer key: two college students, jim and janis, are starting a business and must decide how to divide the two tasks involved: 1. tie-dyeing t-shirts and 2. selling t-shirts. Each individual has only 10 hours per week to dedicate to the business. The following table shows the number of t-shirts each individual can tie-dye or sell in 10-hours time. Use the information in the table to answer questions a-e. Number of t-shirts janis and jim can tie-dye or sell in 10 hours. (outcome without specialization). 24 dyed/ 10 hours (12 dyed/ 5 hours) 30 dyed/ 10 hours (15 dyed/ 5 hours) 12 sold/ 10 hours (6 sold/ 5 hours) Jim"s opportunity cost for selling one t-shirt is 2 shirts tie-dyed. Janis"s opportunity cost for selling one t-shirt is 1 shirts tie-dyed. A comparative advantage exists when an individual can produce at a lower opportunity cost while using the same amount of resources.

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The manager of All-City Realtors wants to hire some real estate agents to specialize in selling housing units acquired by the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) in its attempt to bail out the savings and loan industry. The commission paid by the RTC to the company to sell these homes is a flat rate of $2,000 per unit sold, rather than the customary commission that is based on the sale price of a home. The manager estimates the following marginal product schedule for real estate agents dealing in Government-owned housing:

Number of Agents	Marginal Product (# of Additional Units Sold per Year)	Marginal Revenue Product
1	20
2	17
3	15
4	12
5	8
6	4

a. Construct the marginal revenue product schedule by filling in the blanks in the table.

b. If the manager of All-City Realtors must pay a wage rate of $32,000 per year to get agents who will specialize in selling RTC housing, how many agents should the manager hire? Why?

c. If the wage rate falls to $18,000 per year, how many agents should the manager hire?

d. Suppose RTC raises its commission to $3000 per unit sold. Now, what is the marginal revenue product for each real estate agent employed?

e. Now that the RTC is paying $3000 per unit sold, how many agents should the manager hire if the new wage rate is $30,000?

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A channel of distribution:

A) is any series of firms or individuals who participate in the flow of goods and services from producer to consumer or final user.
B) is only needed when products must be stored.
C) must include one or more intermediaries.
D) is only needed when products are sold indirectly.

Which of the following statements about Place decisions is True?

A) Product classes are not related to Place objectives.
B) The product life cycle is not related to Place objectives.
C) Place decisions are short-term decisions that are easy to change.
D) Different market segments may require separate Place arrangements.

Direct _____ involves personal sales contact between a representative of the company and an individual consumer.

A) marketing
B) selling
C) distribution
D) servicing

A manufacturer prefers to produce and ship in large quantities to take advantage of economies of scale. Final consumers often want to purchase in small quantities. This difference between the producer and consumer is a:

A) Discrepancy of assortment.
B) Discrepancy of quantity.
C) Regrouping activity.
D) Discrepancy adjustment

Which of the following best illustrates adjusting "discrepancies of assortment?"

A) General Motors makes Hummer for one product-market and Chevrolet for another product-market.
B) A hardware store sells all the hardware items wanted by most people.
C) Over 310 million U.S. consumers are served by around 330,000 manufacturers.
D) RCA sold more than 2,000,000 TVs last year

Small farmers in the mountains of Peru pick coffee beans by hand, obtaining only a bucket a day. Then they sell them to buyers who put the beans in large bags to be shipped to processors. This regrouping activity is called:

A) Assorting
B) Wholesaling
C) Bulk-breaking
D) Accumulating

Costco is a warehouse store that sells groceries, household items, and business products. Purchase quantities tend to be larger than in traditional stores that serve final consumers. For example, soft drinks are only sold in 24-can cases, not in 6-packs. Coffee is sold in 3-pound cans instead of one-pound foil packs. Which regrouping activity is Costco shifting to the consumer?

A) Accumulating.
B) Adjusting discrepancies.
C) Assorting.
D) Bulk-breaking.

_____ means separating products into grades and qualities desired by different target markets.A) B) C) D)

A) Bulk-breaking
B) Sorting
C) Accumulating
D) Assorting

A wine producer wants a supermarket manager to display its wines in a desirable end-of-aisle location, but the supermarket manager refuses to give that valuable real estate to this producer. This is an example of __________ conflict.

A) contractual
B) vertical
C) corporate
D) horizontal

10.

A local TV retailer hires knowledgeable salespeople to explain the differences among its models to customers, but a nearby discount store with very few sales staff sells the same TVs at a lower price. This is an example of __________ conflict.

A) horizontal
B) traditional
C) vertical
D) contractual

11.

Yukon Sportswear, a manufacturer of textile products, bought out the wholesaler that had been handling its distribution in Canada. This is an example of:

A) dual distribution.
B) reverse distribution.
C) a contractual channel system.
D) vertical integration.

12.

______________ means selling a product through only one wholesaler or retailer in a particular geographic area.

A) Exclusive distribution
B) Direct distribution
C) Intensive distribution
D) Multichannel distribution

13.

_____ means selling the right to use some process, trademark, patent, or other right for a fee or royalty.

A) Licensing
B) Management contracting
C) Joint venturing
D) Exporting

14.

Logistics, or physical distribution, is the ________________ part of the marketing mix.

A) Place
B) Production
C) Promotion
D) Product

15.

Physical distribution customer service level means all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Honda wants enough bumpers to build cars that day.
B) A vacationer wants Avis to have his rental car clean and ready when he arrives at the rental car counter.
C) Sears' shirts are priced at a fair value.
D) McDonald's has enough large cups so that customers can buy the larger size drinks which are on sale.

16.

The right physical distribution system should be based primarily on

A) the desired customer service level.
B) how customers store the product.
C) the physical characteristics of the product.
D) what is the lowest cost method of transportation for the product.

17.

The "total cost approach" to physical distribution management:

A) seeks to eliminate the storing function.
B) seeks to minimize the cost of transportation.
C) might suggest a high-cost transporting mode if storing costs could be reduced enough to lower total distribution costs.
D) ignores inventory carrying costs.

18.

Just-in-time (JIT) delivery:

A) Increases physical distribution costs for business customers.
B) Requires that a supplier be able to respond to the customer's production schedule.
C) Usually does not require e-commerce order systems and computer networks.
D) Means that deliveries are larger and less frequent.

19.

A _____ is the complete set of firms, facilities, and logistics activities that are involved in procuring materials, transforming them into intermediate or finished products, and distributing them to customers.

A) supply chain
B) physical distribution group
C) logistics partnership
D) just-in time group

20.

Which of the following products would have the lowest transporting costs as a percentage of the selling price?

A) Electronic equipment.
B) Chemicals and plastics.
C) Pharmaceuticals.
D) Sand and gravel.

21.

Which of the following statements about transporting by rail is True?

A) Rail transportation is the slowest mode of transportation.
B) Rail transportation is the least expensive mode of transportation.
C) Rail transportation is good for long-distance transportation of heavy, bulky items.
D) Railroads are most efficient at handling less-than-carload (LCL) shipments

22.

Regarding transporting by truck:

A) Trucks are best for moving large quantities of goods long distances.
B) Trucks are a very low cost mode of transportation.
C) Trucks are not reliable in meeting delivery schedules.
D) Trucks tend to provide fast delivery.

23.

Products that require a high frequency of scheduled shipments would be least suited to travel by

A) truck.
B) rail.
C) air.
D) water.

24.

In spite of high cost, high value, low-weight goods like high-fashion clothing and parts for the electronic industry are often shipped long distances by ____

A) rail.
B) water.
C) air.
D) pipeline.

25.

Air express companies place many small packages into specially designed cylinders that conform to the interior dimensions of a cargo airplane. This practice protects the smaller packages and helps to reduce distribution costs. The air express companies are practicing:

A) Containerization.
B) Piggybacking.
C) Freight forwarding.
D) Cylinderization.

26.

The railroad service which picks up truck trailers at a producer's location, loads them onto rail flatcars, hauls them close to the customer, and then delivers them to the buyer's door is:

A) truck service.
B) fast freight.
C) trailer service.
D) piggyback service.

27.

Inventory refers to

A) the amount of goods being stored.
B) minimizing storage costs.
C) the amount of goods being sold.
D) the marketing function of holding goods.

28.

When the manager of a local electronics store decides to offer its customers a gift-wrapping service for the holidays, this is a decision about:

A) Product
B) Place
C) Promotion
D) Price

29.

When the manager of a RadioShack electronics store decides to accept American Express credit cards from its customers, this is a decision about:

A) Product
B) Place
C) Promotion
D) Price

30.

Limited-line storesA) B) C) D)

A) specialize in certain lines of related products rather than a wide assortment.
B) carry anything they can sell in reasonable volume.
C) are a type of unconventional general store.
D) are larger stores that are organized into many separate departments and offer many product lines.

31.

Specialty shops generally:

A) want to be known for the distinctiveness of their product assortment and the special services they offer.
B) sell homogeneous shopping products.
C) are very good at speeding turnover.
D) carry complete lines--like department stores.

32.

The ____________ says that retailers should offer low prices to get faster turnover and greater sales volumes by appealing to larger markets.

A) Wheel of retailing theory
B) Production concept
C) Mass-merchandising concept
D) Sales concept

33.

A retail store that averages about $17 million in sales annually and specializes in groceries--with self-service and large assortments is a:

A) mass-merchandiser.
B) specialty shop.
C) convenience food store.
D) supermarket.

34.

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1) Suppose your grandmother gave you $25 for your birthday and you decided to spend all of it on candy bars and bags of popcorn. The price of candy bars is $1.25 and price of a bag of peanuts is $3.75.

a) Construct a table showing the alternative combinations of the two products that are available.

b) Plot the data in your table as a budget line in a graph. What is the slope of the budget line? What is the opportunity cost of one more candy bar? Of one bag of peanuts?

c) How, in general, would you decide which of the available combinations of candy bars and bags of peanuts to buy?

2) With current technology, suppose a firm is producing 750 screwdrivers daily. Also assume that the least-cost combination of resources in producing those screwdrivers is 15 units of labor, 20 units of land, 4 units of capital, and 3 unit of entrepreneurial ability, selling at prices of $50, $45, $75, and $50, respectively. If the firm can sell these 750 screwdrivers at $2.50 per unit,

a) what is its total revenue?

b) what is its total cost?

c) what is its profit or loss?

d) will it continue to produce screwdrivers?

e) If this firmâs situation is typical for the other makers of screwdrivers, will resources flow toward or away from this product?

3) How will each of the following changes in demand and/or supply affect equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity in a competitive market; that is, do equilibirium price and quantity rise, fall , or are the answers indeterminate because they depend on the magnitudes of the shifts?

a)Supply decreases and demand is constant. Change in eqilibrium price chnage in eqilibrium quantity

b)Demand decreases and supply is constant.

c)Supply increases and demand is constant.

d)Demand increases and supply increases.

e)Demand decreases and supply decreases.

4)Zeke likes to go to music concerts. The number of times per year that he attends concerts depends on both the price of the concerts as well as Zekeâs income and the cost of other types of entertainmentâin particular, how much it costs to go see a movie instead of attending concerts. The three demand schedules in the $60,000 per year and movies cost $10 each. In scenario D2, Zeke's income is also $60,000 per year, but the price of seeing a movie rises to $12. And in scenario D3, Zeke's income goes up to $80,000 per year, while movies cost $12.

a)Using the data under D1 and D2, calculate the cross-elasticity of Zeke's demand for concerts at all three prices. (To do this, apply the midpoints approach to the cross-elasticity of demand.) Is the cross-elasticity the same at all three prices? Are movies and concerts substitute goods, complementary goods, or independent goods?

b)Using the data under D2 and D3, calculate the income elasticity of Zeke's demand for concerts at all three prices. (To do this, apply the midpoints approach to the income elasticity of demand.) Is the income elasticity the same at all three prices? Are concerts an inferior good?

PRICE	D1	D2	D3
50	10	5	12
40	15	10	25
30	25	15	40

Income 60,000 60,000 80,000

Cost of revenue 10 12 12

5) On the basis of the three individual demand schedules below, and assuming these three people are the only ones in the society, determine (a) the market (a) the market demand schedule on the assumption that the good is a private good and (b) the collective demand schedule on the assumption that the good is a public good.

P	Qd(D1)	Qd(D2)	Qd(d3)
20	0	0	1
19	0	1	2
17	0	2	3
16	0	3	4
15	1	4	5
14	2	5	6
13	3	6	7
12	4	7	8
11	5	8	9
10	6	9	10

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