Motor Company manufactures some of their models in Japan and exports them to their U. S. subsidiary, American Honda. One such imported vehicle costs 1,772,000 JPY (Japanese Yen). American Honda purchases these vehicles from the parent company in JPY, then sells them to dealers in the United States priced in USD, at prices that remain stable over the course of a model year. American Honda is concerned about fluctuations in the JPY cost of the vehicles they purchase from their Japanese parent company, because rising JPY prices could reduce their USD profit margin. The spot rate of the JPY against the USD is currently 111.06 JPY per USD. What is the cost of the imported vehicle in USD?  a. $17,999.99
b. $16,222.99
c. $15,955.34
d. $15,001.89

Your aunt is thinking about opening a hardware store. she estimates that it would cost $300,000 per year to rent the location and buy the stock. in addition, she would have to quit her $45,000 per year job as an accountant. a. define opportunity cost. b. what is your aunt's opportunity cost of running a hardware store for a year? if your aunt thought she could sell $350,000 worth of merchandise in a year, should she open the store? explain.

The economic advisor of a large tire store proposes the demand function d(p)equalsstartfraction 1900 over p minus 40 endfraction , where d(p) is the number of tires of one brand and size that can be sold in one day at price p. answer parts (a) through (e) below. a. recalling that the demand must be positive, what is the domain of this function? the domain consists of all possible values of ▼ for which ▼ p d(p) ▼ does not exist. is positive. is zero. is negative. exists.

Assume that the following conditions exist: a. all banks are fully loaned up- there are no excess reserves, and desired excess reserves are always zero. b. the money multiplier is 5 .     c. the planned investment schedule is such that at a 4 percent rate of interest, investment =$1450 billion. at 5 percent, investment is $1420 billion. d. the investment multiplier is 3 . e.. the initial equilibrium level of real gdp is $12 trillion. f. the equilibrium rate of interest is 4 percent now the fed engages in contractionary monetary policy. it sells $1 billion worth of bonds, which reduces the money supply, which in turn raises the market rate of interest by 1 percentage point. calculate the decrease in money supply after fed's sale of bonds: $nothing billion.