A movie theater manager believes the average amount of money customers spend on snacks is over $15.

To test the claim, a theater employee tracks the spending of 25 randomly selected customers.

The sample mean is $17.08 with a sample standard deviation of $4.81.

a) What is the Null Hypothesis and the Alternative Hypothesis for the manager’s claim?

b) Assuming the population is normal, should we use the Normal z-test or the Student’s t-test?

1. Due to the pandemic, the demand for movies in cinemas has fallen. AMC and Cinemark must both close half of their theaters in Lewis and Corinth counties over the next month.

a. Why would it be less profitable for both to close half the theaters in both counties versus one closing Lewis county theaters and the other closing Corinth county theaters?

b. Model a simultaneous game in which AMC and Cinemark choose either Lewis or Corinth to close. What is the equilibrium of this game?

c. What is the equilibrium if AMC was able to make a theater closure decision before Cinemark?

d. You are an economist hired to advise AMC on which theaters to close. Should you ask for time to all the theater traffic data or ask them to announce theater closures today?

Read the following case. Apply your knowledge of the five components of the 2013 COSO IC framework as well as risk, internal controls, and any other Chapter 6 [Parts 1 & 2] topics to speculate whether or not Ron has a chance of carrying out his idea successfully, without being caught, and explain in detail why or why not?

Ron Mitchell is currently working his first day as a ticket seller and cashier at the First Run Movie Theater. When a customer walks up to the ticket booth, Ron collects the required admission charge and issues the movie patron a ticket. To be admitted into the theater, the customer then presents his or her ticket to the theater manager, who is stationed at the entrance. The manager tears the ticket in half, keeping one half for himself and giving the other half to the customer.

While Ron was sitting in the ticket booth waiting for additional customers, he had a "brilliant" idea for stealing some of the cash from ticket sales. He reasoned that if he merely pocketed some of the cash collections from the sale of tickets, no one would ever know. Because approximately 300 customers attend each performance, Ron believed that it would be difficult for the theater manager to keep a running count of the actual customers entering the theater. To further support his reasoning, Ron noticed that the manager often has lengthy conversations with patrons at the door, and appears to make no attempt to count the actual number of people going into the movie house.

BBT Production is promoting a concert in Kuala Lumpur. The bands will receive a flat fee of RM7 million in cash. The concert will be shown worldwide on closed-circuit television. BBT will collect 100% of the receipts and will return 30% to the individual local closed-circuit theater managers. BBT expects to sell 1.1 million seats at a net average price of RM13 each.

Required:

1. What effect, if any, does each of the following events have on the price elasticity of demand for corporate-owned jets?

a. The cost of manufacturing corporate jets rises

b. Reduced corporate earnings lead to cuts in travel budgets and increase the share of expenditures on corporate jet travel.

2. Since the movie, Avatar, 3-D movies have been popular and charged at a higher price, compared with the traditional 2-D movies.

a. Please analyze the impact of 3-D movies on Price elasticity of demand on 2-D movies

Please answer all of the two questions by one paragraph for each sub-question in one posting.

b. Total revenue (including 2-D and 3-D movies) of theater box offices

Rooter's Cleaning Services provided data concerning the costs incurred to clean hotel rooms for which hotel customers pay $150 per night. Data for the past 7 months are as follows: January February March April May June July Number of rooms cleaned 250 160 200 150 300 170 260 Cleaning cost $6,450 $4,060 $5,100 $4,100 $6,760 $4,200 $6,530 How much are estimated monthly variable costs using the high-low method?

QUESTION 11

In the short-run, if a perfectly competitive firm is producing at a price below average total cost, its economic profit is

QUESTION 12

Assume that a firm's marginal revenue barely exceeds marginal cost. To maximize profit, teh firm should:

QUESTION 13

In the short run, a perfectly competitive firm will stay in business as long as:

QUESTION 14

Suppose that price is below the minimum average total cost (ATC) but above the minimum average variable cost (AVC), and the market price is expected to rise at least to ATC in the near future. In the short run, a firm that is a price taker would:

QUESTION 15

Where is the "short-run shut down point" for a perfectly competitive firm?

Some of the costs vary with the number of productions, some with the number of performances, and some are fixed and depend on neither the number of productions nor the number of performances.On the other hand, the wages of the actors, directors, stagehands, ticket booth personnel, and ushers vary with the number of performances. The greater the number of performances, the higher the wage costs will be. Similarly, the costs of renting the hall and printing the programs will vary with the number of performances. Administrative expenses are more difficult to analyze, but the best estimate is that approximately 75% of the budgeted costs are fixed, 15% depend on the number of productions staged, and the remaining 10% depend on the number of performances. After the beginning of the year, the board of directors of the theater authorized expanding the theater’s program to seven productions and a total of 168 performances. Not surprisingly, actual costs were considerably higher than the costs from the planning budget.

Required:

1. Prepare a flexible budget performance report for the year that shows both spending variances and activity variances. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)