If a firm is hiring variable resources D and F in imperfectly competitive input markets, it will maximize profits by employing D and F in such quantifies that:

The area below the demand curve and above the price line measures

A) consumer surplus. B) economic profit. C) elasticity of demand. D) the total value obtained from consuming the good or service.

Ronaldo's Foods considered building a store in a new location. The owners and their accountants decided that this was not the profitable thing to do. However, soon after they made this decision, both the interest rate and the cost of building the store changed. In which case do these changes both make it more likely that they will now build the store?

a. Interest rates rise and the cost of building the store rises. b. Interest rates rise and the cost of building the store falls. c. Interest rates fall and the cost of building the store rises. d. Interest rates fall and the cost of building the store falls.