Which pricing method is demonstrated by the following statement?
"Alternative Pioneering Systems concluded that consumers would be willing to pay approximately $100 for a food dehydrator. Based on this price, the firm determined margins that would have to be allowed for wholesalers and retailers."
a. Prestige pricing
b. Price lining
c. Skimming pricing
d. Target pricing
e. Above-, at-, or below market pricing

The answer for this problem is Option d. Please explain to me why other options are incorrect.

Break-Even Point

Sheridan Enterprises sells a product for $100 per unit. The variable cost is $47 per unit, while fixed costs are $977,532.

Determine (a) the break-even point in sales units and (b) the break-even point if the selling price were increased to $105 per unit.

An industrial bakery agrees to supply one hundred thousand loaves of bread monthly to a major Canadian grocery chain at a price of $1.00 per loaf. Before deliveries begin, the baker rethinks the deal, feeling it should have charged more. On review, it discovers that the contract recites “one hundred” loaves of bread monthly at $1.00 per loaf. What recourse will the grocery chain have if the bakery refuses to honour its price beyond 100 loaves?

QUESTION 11

1. Chamiching makes hacksaw blades. Inventory values are determined using the first in, first out (FIFO) method. Production and sales data for the first three years appear below.
   

   Hacksaw blades	Sold	Produced
   Yr 1	18,000	22,000
   Yr 2	25,000	23,000
   Yr 3	37,000	35,000

   	Sales price	Full cost
   Yr 1	$10.00	$6.00
   Yr 2	$11.00	$6.60
   Yr 3	$12.00	$7.60

   For Chamiching, which of the following is true?
   
   In the first year, variable costs accounted for half of the full costs. Total fixed production costs increased each subsequent year by 20%, as a result of step-fixed costs and a general inflationary price increase.

   		The variable cost of Yr 2 ending inventory is $6,887
   		The full cost of Yr 2 ending inventory is double the variable cost ending inventory
   		There are 3,000 hacksaw blades in ending inventory
   		The fixed cost per unit in Yr 3 is $2.72
   		None of the above

You will write a single class named WordsXX- replace the XX's with your initials.

The program will have 2 overloaded methods named wordMaker. They will have to be declared as static. Both methods will not have a return type but they will print some text.

The first method wordMaker signature will not accept any parameters and when invoked will simply print out the line "lower case words".

The second overloaded wordMaker method will accept an integer and print "Words in UPPER CASE" . The method will print the phrase as many times as the parameter indicates with each new iteration printed on a new line.

Write a main method that prompts users to enter either the word "lower" or "upper". (Make sure you allow for all varieties of capitalization.)

If they enter "upper" then generate a random number from 3-9 and call wordMaker to print the upper case phrase that many times.

If they enter "lower" it will use the other version of the method.

Part 2

1a. Write a program that randomly generates an integer between 0 AND 50 inclusive. The program should then prompt the user to enter a number until the user input number matches the randomly generated number. For each user input the program tells the user if the number that is input by the user is too high or too low, so the user can make the next guess intelligently. Repeat until match is found

1b. Once the the number is guessed print on the screen whether the number is odd or even.

(Hint to generate Random numbers)

import java.util.Random;

Random rand = new Random();

int  n = rand.nextInt(50) + 1;

Please this is urgent do please Java

Modify the included program to implement the strict alternation solution to achieve mutual exclusion. It does not matter whether Thread 0 goes first or Thread 1, but it is important that the thread strictly alternate.

PROGRAM:

#include <iostream>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int count;
int turn = 0; // Shared variable used to implement strict alternation

void* myFunction(void* arg)
{
   int actual_arg = *((int*) arg);
  
   for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
  
// TODO:
// Make sure that the thread waits for its turn
// before it enters the critical region.
//
// HINT: The thread ID is stored in actual_arg
  
while(turn != actual_arg);
  
  
  
// Beginning of the critical region
  
count++;
std::cout << "Thread #" << actual_arg << " count = " << count << std::endl;
  
// End of the critical region
  
  
  
// TODO:
// Make sure that the other thread gets a turn
//
// HINT: There are only two threads: 0 and 1
// You can use the C++ NOT operator (!)
// to toggle back and forth.
  
  

// Random wait - This code is just to ensure that the threads
// show data sharing problems
int max = rand() % 100000;
  
for (int x = 0; x < max; x++);
  
// End of random wait code
  
   }
  
   pthread_exit(NULL);
}

// HINT: It is not necessary to make any changes in main()
int main()
{
int rc[2];
pthread_t ids[2];
int args[2];
  
count = 0;
for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
args[i] = i;
rc[i] = pthread_create(&ids[i], NULL, myFunction, (void*) &args[i]);
}
  
for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
pthread_join(ids[i], NULL);
}
  
std::cout << "Final count = " << count << std::endl;
pthread_exit(NULL);
}

Consider a competitive market served by many domestic and foreign firms. The domestic demand for these firms’ product is Qd = 700 - 1.5P. The supply function of the domestic firms is QSD = 50 + 0.5P, while that of the foreign firms is QSF = 200. Instructions: Enter your responses for equilibrium price rounded to the nearest penny (two decimal places). Enter your responses for equilibrium quantity rounded to one decimal place.

a. Determine the equilibrium price and quantity under free trade. Equilibrium price: $ Equilibrium quantity: units

b. Determine the equilibrium price and quantity when foreign firms are constrained by a 100-unit quota. Equilibrium price: $ Equilibrium quantity: units

c. Are domestic consumers better or worse off as a result of the quota?

d. Are domestic producers better or worse off as a result of the quota?