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- A publisher faces the following demand schedule for the next novel from one of its popular authors:Price Quantity Demanded100 090 100,00080 200,00070 300,00060 400,00050 500,00040 600,000 530 700,00020 800,00010 900,0000 1,000,000The author is paid $2 million to write the book, and the marginal cost of publishing the book is aconstant $30 per book.a. Compute total revenue, total cost, and profit at each quantity. What quantity would a profitmaximizing publisher choose? What price would it charge? b. Compute marginal revenue. (Recall that MR=∆TR/∆Q.) How does marginal revenue compare tothe price? Explain. c. Graph the marginal-revenue, marginal-cost, and demand curves. At what quantity do themarginal-revenue and marginal-cost curves cross? What does this signify? d. In your graph, shade in the deadweight loss. Explain in words what this means. e. If the author was paid $3 million instead of $2 million to write the book, how would this affectthe publisher’s decision regarding the price…A publisher faces the following demand schedule for the next novel from one of itspopular authors:Price Quantity Demanded$ 100 0 novels90 100,00080 200,00070 300,00060 400,00050 500,00040 600,00030 700,00020 800,00010 900,0000 1,000,000The author is paid $2 million to write the book, and the marginal cost of publishingthe book is a constant $10 per book.a. Compute total revenue, total cost, and profit at each quantity. What quantity woulda profit-maximizing publisher choose? What price would it charge?b. Compute marginal revenue. (Recall that MR = ΔTR/ΔQ.) How does marginal revenuecompare to the price? Explain.C. Graph the marginal-revenue, marginal-cost, and demand curves. At what quantitydo the marginal-revenue and marginal-cost curves cross? What does this signify?d. In your graph, shade in the deadweight loss. Explain in words what this means e. If the author were paid $3 million instead of $2 million to write the book, how wouldthis affect the publisher’s decision regarding what…Return to Figure 9.2. Suppose P0 is 10 and P1 is 11. Suppose a new firm with the same LRAC curve as the incumbent tries to bleak into the market by selling 4,000 units of output. Estimate from the graph what the new firms average cost of producing output would be. If the incumbent continues. to produce 6,000 units, how much output would the two films supply to the market? Estimate what would happen to the market price as a result of the supply of both the incumbent firm and the new entrant. Approximately how much profit would each firm earn? Figure 9.2 Economics of Scale and Natural Monoploy
- A publisher faces the following demand schedule for the next novel from one of its popular authors:Price Quantity Demanded100 090 100,00080 200,00070 300,00060 400,00050 500,00040 600,000 530 700,00020 800,00010 900,0000 1,000,000The author is paid $2 million to write the book, and the marginal cost of publishing the book is a constant $30 per book.d. In your graph, shade in the deadweight loss. Explain in words what this means. e. If the author was paid $3 million instead of $2 million to write the book, how would this affectthe publisher’s decision regarding the price to charge? Explain. f. Suppose the publisher was not profit-maximizing but was concerned with maximizing economicefficiency. What price would it charge for the book? How much profit would it make at thisprice? (Price (Dollars per Garment) 7 D E 5 АС-МC Demand Marginal Revenue 20 Garments cleaned per year (millions) The long run average and marginal cost of dry-cleaning services is $5, as shown in the graph. Given the demand curve and the marginal revenue curve shown in the graph, which of the following is true? Select one: O . If the industry were served by a profit-maximizing monopoly, the price of dry-cleaning services would be $7 per garment. Ob. If the industry were perfectly competitive, 10 million garments would be cleaned each year. If the market were served by a profit-maximizing monopoly, the price of dry-cleaning services would be $5 per garment and monopoly economic profit would be zero. O d. If the industry were perfectly competitive then the long-run equilibrium price of dry-cleaning services would be $7 per garment.3. SupPose * firm in ä competitive marhet- Fäces the f0llowing re venue and cost Function TR= 12 Ind + 208h 4 S0 3 Determine the icuel n4 out Put which maXi mile Profit b, Detcrmine the Price ievel O whot s moximum Profit thot the Firm I chieves ?
- TI,c market for apple pies in the city of F.ctenia is competitive and has the following demand schedule; a. Compute each producer's total cost and averagetotal cost for l to 6 pies.b. The price of a pie is now SIL How many pies aresold? How many pies docs each producer make?How many producers are there? How much profitdocs each producer earn? c. ls the situation d escribed in part (bl a long-runequilibrium? Why or why not?d. Suppose tha t in the Jong run there is free entryand exit. How much profit does each producerearn in the Jong-run equilibrium? Wha t is themarket price? How many pies docs each producermake? How many p ies are sold in the market?How many pie producers arc operating?Why does a monopoly arise? O because of diseconomies of scale because entry to an industry is blocked because of elastic demand because firms want to maximize profitsecourses.pvamu.edu O No answer text provided. Question 21 3 pts Figure Monpo12: A Fim in An Imperfectly Competitive Industry Price MC Given: Q* = 150 ATC P* AVC P* = $5.00 PATC PATC = $3.00 PAVC PAVC = S0.50 D MR Quantity Q* Refer to Figure Monpo12. Profits for this monopoly is about O $300 O No answer text provided. O $200 O No answer text provided. 3 pts Question 22 Exhibit 9-4: A Monopoly Total MacBook Air
- MC we e-MR-D 01214 6 telof wh Piease refer to the above graph of a perfectly competitive firm's cost and revenue curves the price of thin product is $7, what is the proft maximizing level of output? unts the price of this product is $7, what is the frm's total revenue when it maximires proft? S It the price of this product is $7, what is the fiem's total cost when it maximizes profir?S It the price of this product is $7, what is the fims total variable cost when it maximizes proft?S What is the fiem's tatal fed oost? the price of this product is $7, what is the fm's proft or loss when t maximizes pro? of loss, write answer as a regative number wth minius sgn)5Please explain briefly in your own words why firms in perfect competitive markets are price takers while a monopoly firm is a pricemaker. Also comment on the size of the consumer and producersurplus in both market structures.An economist was trying to understand the relation between price, Marginal Revenueand Marginal cost in Monopoly and Perfect Competition. Determine equilibrium priceand output in the long run under Monopoly and Perfect Competition if the marketdemand curve is given as QD=500-2P and Marginal cost is Rs 50. Also comment onthe values obtained in the case of Monopoly and Perfect Competition