Assume that product Alpha and product Beta are both priced at $1 per unit and that Ellie has $20 to spend on Alpha and Beta. She buys 8 units of Alpha and 12 units of Beta. The marginal utility of Alpha is 40 and the marginal utility of Beta is 20. This indicates that:

A. Ellie should make no change in consumption
B. Given another dollar, Ellie should buy an additional unit of Beta
C. In order to maximize utility, Ellie should buy more of Beta and less of Alpha
D. In order to maximize utility, Ellie should buy more of Alpha and less of Beta

You are the new chief information officer for the video-game developer, necturus games. the company has recently undergone a major expansion of its primary product, and you must staff up the is department and determine the best way to develop new game "capsules" for the game, "escape velocity."

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Interest is credited to a fixed annuity no lower than the variable contract rate contract guaranteed rate current rate of inflation prime rate