1) Miguel and Jake run a paper company. Each week they need to produce 1,000 reams of paper to ship to their customers. The paper plant's long-run production function is: q = 4K L% where q is the number of reams produced, Kis the quantity of capital rented, and L is the quantity of labor hired. -(주)" For this production, MP, = and MP, = 3 The weekly cost function for the paper plant is C= 10K +2L where C is the total weekly cost

1) Miguel and Jake run a paper company. Each week they need to produce 1,000 reams of paper to ship to their customers. The paper plant's long-run production function is: q = 4K L% where q is the number of reams produced, Kis the quantity of capital rented, and L is the quantity of labor hired. -(주)" For this production, MP, = and MP, = 3 The weekly cost function for the paper plant is C= 10K +2L where C is the total weekly cost

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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