Every year you pay your neighbor $150 to clean the gutters at your house. you are pretty good friends so you know that your neighbor will never increase the price on you. you saw an ad on late night tv for a new product--guttersnipe--which sits in the gutters and prevents leaves getting in. your interest rate is 8% and you plan on being in the house another 5 years. you assume that any potential buyer won't be interested/notice that you have installed guttersnipe on your house. what is the most you would be willing to pay to buy guttersnipe for your house? $499 $399 $750 $599

Which of the following accurately describes a situation in which consumers have elastic demand? a. a restaurant starts using margarine instead of butter because butter becomes more expensive. b. consumers boycott a restaurant because the waiters aren't paid minimum wage. c. a company starts using sugar instead of corn syrup because its revenues are up. d. people give up eating pasta and bread because they want to lose weight. 2b2t

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

What two elements normally must exist before a person can be held liable for a crime