Window cleaning is a perfectly competitive market in Boston. The daily market demand for window cleaning in Boston is Q(P) = 360 ‒ 4P, where Q represents the daily number of houses served and P is the price per house; and (2) the current market price per house served is 30. Each window-cleaning firm faces a daily total cost of TC(q) 72+ 1/2 q2, where q represents the number of houses served per day. What is the current daily profit for each window-cleaning firm?  A. -72 B. 0 C. 378 D. 400 E. 578

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Window cleaning is a perfectly competitive market in Boston. The daily market demand for window cleaning in Boston is Q(P) = 360 ‒ 4P, where Q represents the daily number of houses served and P is the price per house; and (2) the current market price per house served is 30. Each window-cleaning firm faces a daily total cost of TC(q) 72+ 1/2 q2, where q represents the number of houses served per day.

What is the current daily profit for each window-cleaning firm? 

A. -72
B. 0
C. 378
D. 400
E. 578 

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