Echeverria sa is an argentinian manufacturing company whose total factory overhead costs fluctuate somewhat from year to year according to the number of machine-hours worked in its production facility. these costs (in argentinian pesos) at high and low levels of activity over recent years are given below: level of activitylow high machine-hours 6 8 total factory overhead costs 274000 pesos 312000 pesosthe factory overhead costs above consist of indirect materials, rent, and maintenance. the company has analyzed these costs at the 53,100 machine-hours level of activity as follows: indirect materials (variable) 9 pesos rent (fixed) 13 maintenance (mixed) 54000 total factory overhead costs 274000 pesosfor planning purposes, the company wants to break down the maintenance cost into its variable and fixed cost elements. required: 1. 1. estimate how much of the factory overhead cost of 312,000 pesos at the high level of activity consists of maintenance cost. (hint: to do this, it may be to first determine how much of the 312,000 pesos cost consists of indirect materials and rent. think about the behavior of variable and fixed costs.)2. using the high-low method, estimate a cost formula for maintenance.3. what total overhead costs would you expect the company to incur at an operating level of 65,000 machine-hours?

< back to assignment attempts: 1 1 keep the highest: 1 / 2 2. determining opportunity cost juanita is deciding whether to buy a suit that she wants, as well as where to buy it. three stores carry the same suit, but it is more convenient for juanita to get to some stores than others. for example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $102 for the suit: store travel time each way price of a suit (minutes) (dollars per suit) local department store 15 102 across town 30 88 neighboring city 60 65 juanita makes $42 an hour at work. she has to take time off work to purchase her suit, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. assume that returning to work takes juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. as you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling. complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location. store opportunity cost of time price of a suit total cost (dollars) (dollars per suit) (dollars) local department store 102 across town 88 neighboring city 65 assume that juanita takes opportunity costs and the price of the suit into consideration when she shops. juanita will minimize the cost of the suit if she buys it from the . grade it now save & continue continue without saving

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a weak economy? a. a low employment rateb. a high inflation ratec. a decreased gdpd. a high unemployment rate

:; )write a paragraph of two to three sentences and describe what will happen to a society that does not have a productive workforce?