A manufacturing company preparing to build a new plant is considering three potential locations for it. The fixed and variable costs for the three alternative locations are presented below.

a. complete a numeric locational cost-volume analysis

b. Indicate over what range each of the alternatives A, B, C is the low-cost choice

c. Is any alternative never perferred? Explain

Cost A B C

Fixed ($) 2,500,000 2,000,000 3,500,000

Vaiable ($ per unit) 21 25 15

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.