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The production of plastic bags characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs. As a result, we would expect (relatively)
O Few small firms in this market
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O Many small firms in this market
O Few large firms in this market
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- Question 3 The current market price in a competitive industry is $15. Every firm in the industry operates a technology that implies costs described by the function C = 12.5 + 0.3Q2. In the future, the technology is expected to change, and the new cost function will then be C = 10 + 0.2Q2. How much profit is the typical firm making today and in the long run? O. Profit is zero both today and in the long run. O. Profit is 125 both today and in the long run. O. Profit is 175 today and zero in the long run. O. Profit is 250 today and 125 in the long run.21. A long-run equilibrium in an industry exists when cost per unit is at its lowest possible level. O. there is only one firm in the industry. O. the size of the market remains constant. O. price equals cost per unit. O. price equals marginal cost. 22. A tariff imposed on a country as a penalty for dumping goods is called a(n) O. antidumping duty. O. quota tariff. O. ad valorem tariff. O. revenue tariff. O. dumping duty.Microsoft is the only business that sells Computer Operation System in the world. Assuming that Microsoft is maximizing its profit, which of the following statements is true? Select one : O a. Microsoft prices will be less than marginal cost. O b. Microsott prices will equal marginal cost. O c. Microsoft prices wil be a function of supply and demand and will therefore oscillate around marginal costs. O d. Microsoft prices will be higher than marginal cost.
- Quantity Price Total Fixed Costs Variale Cost Total Costs Average Variable Costs Average Total Cost Marginal Cost Total Revenue Marginal Revenue 0 35 25 0 1 35 25 20 2 35 25 25 3 35 25 35 4 35 25 52 5 35 25 80 If this firm produces a quantity of zero units, what is the total profits? What is the firm's marginal cost at a production level of two units? What is the average variable cost at a production level of five units? This firm becomes profitable producing at a quantity of ___ units. The average total cost is smallest at which level of production? At what quantity should this firm produce to maximize their profits based on your calculations? The total costs to produce four units is __________ while the average total cost to produce four units is _________.The table below shows the weekly marginal cost (MC) and average total cost (ATC) for Buddies, a purely competitive firm that produces novelty ear buds. Assume the market for novelty ear buds is a competitive market and that the price of ear buds is $6.00 per pair. Quantity of Ear Buds MC ($) ATC ($) 10 - 5.00 15 2.00 4.00 20 2.44 3.61 25 3.56 3.60 30 4.02 3.67 35 5.49 3.93 40 5.93 4.18 45 8.59 4.67 Instructions: In part a, enter your answer as the closest given whole number. In parts b–d, round your answers to two decimal places. a. If Buddies wants to maximize profits, how many pairs of ear buds should it produce each week? _ pairs b. At the profit-maximizing quantity, what is the total cost of producing ear buds? $ _ c. If the market price for ear buds is $6 per pair, and Buddies produces the profit-maximizing quantity of ear buds, what will Buddies profit or loss be per week? $ _ d. Now assume the market price is $5.50 per…Kasey Puzzle, Inc. sells geography-based puzzles. Kasey currently sells 25,000 units a month for $40 each, has variable costs of $20 per unit, and fixed costs of $300,000. Kasey Puzzle is considering increasing the price of its units to $60 per unit. This will not affect costs, but demand is expected to drop 20%. Should Kasey Puzzle increase the price of its product? с Multiple Choice O O Yes, profit will increase $500,000. No, profit will decrease $500,000. No, profit will decrease $300,000. Yes; profit will increase $300,000.
- Suppose that bicycles are produced by a perfectly competitive, constant-cost industryWhich of the following will have a larger effect the long-run price of bicycles: a government program to advertise the health benefits of bicyclingor (2) a government program increases the demand for steel, an input in the manufacture of bicycles that is produced in an increasing cost industry ? O. Option 1: shifts the demand curve out and increases the price. O. Option 2: shifts the supply curve up and increases the price O. Option 2: it shifts the demand curve up and increases the quantity. O. Option 2: shifts the supply curve up and increases the quantity.Suppose that a perfectly competitive firm faces a market price of $7 per unit, and at this price the upward-sloping portion of the firm's marginal cost curve crosses its marginal revenue curveat an outpuut level of 1,400 units. If the firsm produces 1,400 units, it's average variable costs equal $6.50 per unit, and its average fixed costs equal $0.80 per unit. What is the firm's maximizing (or loss-minimizing output level? What is the amount of it's economic profits (or losses) at this output level?Suppose that each firm in a competitive industry has the following costs: Total cost: TC = 50 + 0.5Q^2The market demand curve for this product is: Qd= 120 −PThere are 9 firms in the market.a) What are each firm’s: fixed cost, variable cost, marginal cost, and average total cost? Graph the average-total-cost curve and the marginal-cost curve.b) Give the equation for each firm’s supply curve.the average-total-cost curve at its minimum? What is marginal cost and average totalc) Give the equation for the market supply curve for the short run in which the numbercost at that quantity?
- The profit-maximizing quantity is the one at which the marginal revenue of the last unit was: O greater than the marginal cost. O less than the marginal cost. O equal to the marginal cost. O zero.The market determined price in a perfectly competitive industry is P = Rs. 10. Suppose that the total cost equation of an individual firm in the industry is given by the expressionTC 1000+2Q+0.01Q2a) What is the firm’s profit-maximizing output level and profit? Is this profit normal profit or supper normal profit? Justify your answerb) At profit maximizing level what is firm total cost, total revenue and marginal cost c) Why does a competitive firm is considered as a price taker and Monopoly firm as a price makerA small firm operating in a purely competitive market has fixed costs of $45 per day compensates each employee $96 per day and has daily input and raw material costs as indicated in the table below. A. What would be the profit maximizing level of production if demand increased such that each unit sold for $130?, will the company make an economic profit producing this quantity of output? b: suppose the demand significantly decreased so that price for a unit of ouput sold to $115 each. What should the firm do? Why?
