A. Complete the table. A small firm operating in a purely competitive market, has fixed costs of $45 per day, compensate each employee $96 per day, and has daily output and raw material costs as indicated in the table below.  b. If the company can sell every product it makes for $125 each, how many units should the company make each day? How many employees will it hire each day? What is the firm's MRP for the last month hired? Will the company make an economic profit producing this quantity of output? Why or why not?

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A. Complete the table. A small firm operating in a purely competitive market, has fixed costs of $45 per day, compensate each employee $96 per day, and has daily output and raw material costs as indicated in the table below. 

b. If the company can sell every product it makes for $125 each, how many units should the company make each day? How many employees will it hire each day? What is the firm's MRP for the last month hired? Will the company make an economic profit producing this quantity of output? Why or why not? 

Marginal
Cost per
# of
Employees of
Units
Fixed Raw
Avg.
Avg.
Variable Total
Total
Total
Total
extra unit
costs Material Labor Variable Cost
Cost
of output
Output
costs
costs
costs
Cost
0.
$0
1
1
$35
$ 52
3.
$75
4.
4
$ 105
23
2.
Transcribed Image Text:Marginal Cost per # of Employees of Units Fixed Raw Avg. Avg. Variable Total Total Total Total extra unit costs Material Labor Variable Cost Cost of output Output costs costs costs Cost 0. $0 1 1 $35 $ 52 3. $75 4. 4 $ 105 23 2.
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