Barb Has a Hot-Dog Stand near the Ferry Terminal for Centre

question 40

Essay

Barb has a hot-dog stand near the ferry terminal for Centre Island. She pays $500 per month as rent and $3000 per month in wages for the hired help. Variable costs per hot dog come out to be $1.30 and she sells each hotdog for $3.00. In summer months, she is able to sell 4500 hotdogs in a month. Recently, another hot dog vendor opened his stand across the street. To attract and retain her customers, she added a free soda can which increased her variable costs by 20 cents. To make things worse, the rent was also increased by 15%. What is the change in her monthly net income due to these recent changes. Assume that the monthly sale figures remain at 4500 units.

Recognize the importance of encoding and decoding in the communication process.

Identify the role of feedback in the communication process.

Understand strategies for conveying a message through various channels of communication.

Recognize the process of creating awareness and persuading consumers through promotional activities.

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Definitions:

Total Payroll

The complete amount of money a business pays to its employees over a specific period, including wages, salaries, bonuses, and deductions.

Rectangular Hyperbola

A curve representing a relationship between two variables wherein the product of the two variables is constant, commonly used in economics to describe certain elasticities.

Price Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price, indicating how changes in price affect consumption or production.

Slope

In mathematics, the measure of the steepness or angle of a line, defined as the ratio between the rise and the run between two points on the line.