Hoag Corporation applies manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of standard machine-hours. Budgeted and actual fixed manufacturing overhead costs for the most recent month appear below: Original Budget Actual Costs Fixed overhead costs: Supervision $ 9,880 $ 9,970 Utilities 4,160 4,440 Factory depreciation 21,320 21,190 Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 35,360 $ 35,600 The company based its original budget on 2,600 machine-hours. The company actually worked 2,280 machine-hours during the month. The standard hours allowed for the actual output of the month totaled 2,080 machine-hours. What was the overall fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance for the month

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?