Camille's creations and julia's jewels both sell beads in a competitive market. if at the market price of $5 both are running out of beads to sell (they can't keep up with the quantity demanded at that price), then we would expect both camille's and julia's to

a) raise their price and increase their quantity supplied
b) raise their price and reduce their quantity supplied
c) lower their price and reduce their quantity supplied
d) lower their price and increase their quantity supplied

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Pederson company reported the following: manufacturing costs $480,000 units manufactured 8,000 units sold 7,500 units sold for $90 per unit beginning inventory 2,000 units what is the average manufacturing cost per unit? (round the answer to the nearest dollar.)

In 1975, mcdonald’s introduced its egg mcmuffin breakfast sandwich, which remains popular and profitable today. this longevity illustrates the idea of: