Consider a beekeeper. The beekeeper has the following production function where the input is the number of hives and the output is quantity of honey produced.  Beehives           1            2             3             4               5               6              7               8               9               10              11 Honey               12         23           33           42             50            57            66             71             75             78              80 The cost of installing a beehive is $100 and the price of a unit of honey (whatever that is...) is $20.  Also each beehive increases the output of apples at a nearby apple orchard by $40.      What if we wanted to subsidize honey instead?  How much should that subsidy be per unit? (Round to one decimal place.)

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Consider a beekeeper. The beekeeper has the following production function where the input is the number of hives and the output is quantity of honey produced. 

Beehives           1            2             3             4               5               6              7               8               9               10              11

Honey               12         23           33           42             50            57            66             71             75             78              80

The cost of installing a beehive is $100 and the price of a unit of honey (whatever that is...) is $20.  Also each beehive increases the output of apples at a nearby apple orchard by $40.     

What if we wanted to subsidize honey instead?  How much should that subsidy be per unit? (Round to one decimal place.) 

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