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- Would independent trucking fit the characteristics of a perfectly competitive industry?When are you are you expecting companies to produce in the short run?A. costs equal equal revenueB. price equals marginal revenueC. Average costs equal marginal costsD.marginal revenue equals marginal costCase D: Apex Company. Apex is a perfectly competitive firm. It has total fixed costs of $300/day and a daily variable cost schedule in the table below. Apex’s product sells for $200 per unit. Quantity (units) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Variable Cost (TVC) 0 100 180 220 300 390 500 640 800 1000 1250 Answer the following questions: What is the profit-maximizing level of output? Calculate Apex’s profit. If the market price dropped to $80, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case? If the market price dropped further to $40, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case? Comment on your answers to parts (2) and (3).
- A computer company produces affordable, easy-to-use home computer systems and has fixed costs of $250. The marginal cost of producing computers is as indicated below. Output Fixed Cost Variable Cost Total Cost Marginal Cost Average Cost Average Variable Cost 1 $250 $700 $950 $700 2 $250 $925 $1175 $225 3 $250 $315 4 $250 $360 5 $250 $400 6 $250 $450 7 $250 $550 If the company sells the computers for $550, is it making a profit or a loss? How big is the profit or loss? If the firm sells the computers for $315, is it making a profit or a loss? How big is the profit or loss? We expect the marginal cost to increase as this firm produces more computers. But when the firm shifts from producing 1 to 2 computers, marginal cost falls. What might explain this?Apex is a perfectly competitive firm. It has total fixed costs of $300/day and a daily variable cost schedule in the table below. Apex’s product sells for $200 per unit. Quantity (units) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Total Variable Cost (TVC) 0 100 180 220 300 390 500 640 800 1000 1250Answer the following questions:a. What is the profit-maximizing level of output? Calculate Apex’s profit.b. If the market price dropped to $80, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case?c. If the market price dropped further to $40, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case?d. Comment on your answers to parts (2) and (3Ball Bearings Inc. faces costs of production as follows:Quantity Total Fixed cost Total Variable Cost0 200 01 200 502 200 703 200 904 200 1405 200 2006 200 360a. Calculate the company’s average fixed costs, average variable costs, average total costs, andmarginal costs. a. The price of a case of ball bearings is $50. Seeing that she can’t make a profit, the chiefexecutive officer (CEO) decides to shut down operations. What are the firm’s profits/losses?Was this a wise decision? Explain. b. Vaguely remembering his introductory economics course, the chief financial officer tells the CEOit is better to produce one case of ball bearings because marginal revenue equals marginal costat that quantity. What are the firm’s profits/losses at that level of production? Was this the bestdecision? Explain.
- Apex is a perfectly competitive firm. It has total fixed costs of $300/day and a daily variable cost schedule in the table below. Apex’s product sells for $200 per unit. Quantity (units) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Total Variable Cost (TVC) 0 100 180 220 300 390 500 640 800 1000 1250Answer the following questions:1. If the market price dropped to $80, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case?2. If the market price dropped further to $40, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case?3. Comment on your answers to parts (1) and (2).When a perfectly competitive firm increases thequantity it produces and sells by 10 percent, itsmarginal revenue _________ and its total revenuerises by _________.a. falls; less than 10 percentb. falls; exactly 10 percentc. stays the same; less than 10 percentd. stays the same; exactly 10 percenta. A firm operating in a perfectly competitive market is earning K20 million economic profits. What is the firms accounting profits if the opportunity cost is K30 millionb. What will be the firm’s economic profits in the long run? c. Company ‘A’ has been recording accounting profits averaging K50 million by investing in project C. It could earn K60 million and K70 million in projects D and E, respectively. What is the company’s current economic profit? d. Advise management what to do in the long run e. Project ‘B’ has a net present value of zero after applying a discount rate of 10%, which is the risk adjusted required rate of return that takes into account the riskiness of the project. What return is earned on this project f. After a risk assessment, it is discovered that project ‘B’ has become more risky and the risk adjusted required return to use must be 12%. Will the net present value of project ‘B’ still remain zero?
- Calculate total revenue of a firm given that:- Profit = $500 Total cost = $1100Lisa lawn Company (LLC) is a lawn mowing business in a perfectly competitive market for lawn mowing services. The following table sets out Lisa's cost Quantity(lawns per hour) Total cost (dollars per lawn 0 $30 1 40 2 55 3 75 4 100 5 130 6 175 when Lisa shuts down, what will be her economic loss?Case D: Apex Company. Apex is a perfectly competitive firm. It has total fixed costs of $300/day and a daily variable cost schedule in the table below. Apex’s product sells for $200 per unit. Quantity (units) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Variable Cost (TVC) 0 100 180 220 300 390 500 640 800 1000 1250 Answer the following questions: If the market price dropped to $80, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case? If the market price dropped further to $40, what is the profit-maximizing level of output? What is Apex’s profit (or loss) in this case? Comment on your answers to parts (1) and (2).
