A cocoa farmer in Country X exports $500 worth of his cocoa beans to a chocolate manufacturer in Country Y. The chocolate manufacturer keeps $300 worth of the cocoa beans in inventory for future production use. The chocolate manufacturer then refines the remaining beans and sells the refined cocoa beans to a chocolate company for $700. The chocolate company makes the beans into chocolate and sells that to households for $1000. If the economy in country Y only consumes chocolate, calculate the GDP of country Y using the expenditure approach.

Kayla and jada are roommates in new york city. both kayla and jada recently received pay raises. kayla now buys more movie tickets than before, but jada buys fewer. kayla behaves as if movie tickets are goods and jada's income elasticity of demand for movie tickets is

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Describe how to write a main idea expressed as a bottom-line statement