The marginal product of labor for the third hour of labor is ...????. ​(Enter your response as an integer​.) The value of the marginal product of labor for the third hour of labor is ......???. ​(Round your response to two decimal places​.) If the wage paid to workers in Die​ Cast's plant is​ $25/hour, it should employ ......??? ​worker(s). ​(Enter your response as an integer​.) If the wage paid to workers in Die​ Cast's plant is​ $35/hour, it should employ ......???? ​worker(s). ​(Enter your response as an integer​.) If the wage is​ $25/hour, but the price of a bracket declines to ​$0.50​, it should employ ......??? ​worker(s).

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Suppose Die Cast Aluminum Co. is a subcontractor for the auto industry and makes specialized auto parts. There is a bracket it manufactures that it sells for
​$1.00.
The following table shows the number of brackets that can be produced from a given number of labor hours. Assume that the company cannot hire labor for a fraction of an hour.
Hours of Labor
Output
0
0
1
50
2
90
3
120
4
140
5
150
6
155
7
157
The marginal product of labor for the
third
hour of labor is
...????.
​(Enter
your response as an
integer​.)
The value of the marginal product of labor for the
third
hour of labor is
......???.
​(Round
your response to two decimal
places​.)
If the wage paid to workers in Die​ Cast's plant is​ $25/hour, it should employ
......???
​worker(s).
​(Enter
your response as an
integer​.)
If the wage paid to workers in Die​ Cast's plant is​ $35/hour, it should employ
......????
​worker(s).
​(Enter
your response as an
integer​.)
If the wage is​ $25/hour, but the price of a bracket declines to
​$0.50​,
it should employ
......???
​worker(s).
​(Enter
your response as an
integer​.)
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