Microeconomics, Student Value Edition (2nd Edition)
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Your team can produce an output equal to Q=1000 units and you have two inputs or resources to use. These resources are labor and capital. Assume the wage rate is is $10 for labor and renting cost for a machine is $20.
Suppose you have three combinations of resources available to you and these are:
Option I Labor = 10 Capital = 5
Option II Labor = 4 Capital = 8
Option III Labor = 14 Capital = 2
Find the least cost method and decide which method you will select to produce Q=1000
(show your work below)
Blast! Turns out child workers are not as productive as adults that I was basing my decision off of. Basically, they are two minutes slower across the board:
# of Concession Stand Employees
Average Wait Time (Minutes)
Average Wait Time (Minutes) with Child Employees
1
18
20
2
8
10
3
6
8
4
5
7
5
7
9
At the daily rate of $12.50 per child worker per day, how many should I hire?
(If you are doing this correctly you are thinking with marginal analysis, and if so, might be wondering if this is a trick question. It is not, it is quite straight forward precisely because of marginal analysis!)
Your team can produce an output equal to Q=1000 units and you have two inputs or resources to use. These resources are labor and capital. Assume the wage rate is is $10 for labor and renting cost for a machine is $20.
Suppose you have three combinations of resources available to you and these are:
Option I Labor = 10 Capital = 5
Option II Labor = 4 Capital = 8
Option III Labor = 14 Capital = 2
Find the least cost method and decide which method you will select to produce Q=1000
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