Consider the market for Atlantic salmon. Petuna, Tasmania’s smallest salmon farm, and Huon Aquaculture, a large corporate supplier, are both producers of Atlantic salmon. The marginal cost curves for both firms are shown in the graph below:        If the market price is $13 per kilo of salmon, how many kilos of salmon would Petuna supply? What about Huon Aquaculture? How many total kilos would they collectively supply? Is this allocation the most productively efficient way to produce this quantity of salmon?

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Consider the market for Atlantic salmon. Petuna, Tasmania’s smallest salmon farm, and Huon Aquaculture, a large corporate supplier, are both producers of Atlantic salmon. The marginal cost curves for both firms are shown in the graph below:   

 

 

If the market price is $13 per kilo of salmon, how many kilos of salmon would Petuna supply? What about Huon Aquaculture? How many total kilos would they collectively supply? Is this allocation the most productively efficient way to produce this quantity of salmon?

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Marginal cost
($ per kilogram)
$13
5
Potuna's
marginal cost
Huon Aquaculture's
marginal cost
10 15 20 25 30 35 Quantity
(thousands of tonnes)
Transcribed Image Text:Marginal cost ($ per kilogram) $13 5 Potuna's marginal cost Huon Aquaculture's marginal cost 10 15 20 25 30 35 Quantity (thousands of tonnes)
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