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- Figure 14-9 Price $29 Po Pa P₂ P₂ Ps Q & a. (P5- P4) × Q3 b. (P5- P3) x Q3 OC. (P5- P4) × Q2 . d. (PS- P3) x Q2 * AVC ATC 6₂ Q₂ Quantity Refer to Figure 14-9. When market price is P5, which area represents a profit-maximizing firm's profits?3. Johnny Rockabilly has just finished recording his latest CD. His record company's marketing department determines that the demand for the CD is as follows: Price Number of CDs $24 10 000 22 20 000 20 20 30 000 18 40 000 16 50 000 14 60 000 The company can produce the CD with no fixed cost and a variable cost of $5 per CD. a. Find total revenue for quantity equal to 10 000, 20 000, and so on. What is the marginal revenue for each 10 000 increase in the quantity sold? b. What quantity of CDs would maximize profit? What would be the price? What would be the profit? c. If you were Johnny's agent, what recording fee would you advise Johnny to demand from the record company? Why?|Price Demanded Revenue Revenue Marginal Cost Cost $24 1000 $24,000 ** $15,000 ** ** ** $22 1250 $27,500 $14 $17,000 $8 $20 1500 $10 $19,500 $10 $18 1750 $31,500 Y $23,000 $14 $16 2000 $32,000 $2 $27,000 Z (a) Calculate total revenue at X. (b) Calculate marginal revenue at Y. (c) Calculate marginal cost at Z. (d) Find the profit maximizing price. (e) Find the profit maximizing quantity. (f) Find the profit the firm will earn.
- The number of chairs that Cooper's Millworks can sell per day is given by the table below. Tables Sold Daily. Price Total Revenue Marginal Revenue Average Revenue 1 2 3 300 280 260 What is the missing value A? Answer: 300 560 A 300 260 B 110 280 C1. Demand and Costs. Assume you are faced with the following demand curve,P = 20-0.5QWhere P is the dollar price per unit and Q is the number of units sold per month, and Q must be2 or more.a. Write the expression (definition) for this firm’s Total Revenue (TR)b. Write the expression for this firm’s marginal revenue (MR).c. What is Q when the P is zero?d. What is P when the Q is zero?e. Profit maximization occurs where MR=MC. If MC=$10 what is the profit maximizing levelof Q and P?f. As a business owner, you are thinking about lowering the price of this product. If youlower the price by 10% from your answer in e., will your TR rise or fall?4. Profit maximization in the cost-curve diagram Suppose that the market for candles is a competitive market. The following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. (Note: Area in blue rectangle is shown in thousands.) 32 28 V 24 ATC AVC MC PRICE (Dollars per candle) 40 36 8 4 0 0 + 2 4 8 6 10 QUANTITY (Thousands of candles) 12 14 16 18. 20 6,000 In the short run, at a market price of $20 per candle, this firm will choose to produce candles per day. 8,000 Profit or Loss (in thousands) ? On the previous graph, 9,000 the blue rectangle (circle symbols) to shade the area (in the 12000 ands) representing the firm's profit or loss if the market price is $20 and the firm chooses to produce the quantity you already selected. Note: In the following question, you should enter a positive number in the numeric entry field. [$ The area (in thousands) of this rectangle indicates that the firm's would be per day.
- 4. Elasticity and total revenue The following graph shows the daily demand curve for bippitybops in Denver. Use the green rectangle (triangle symbols) to compute total revenue at various prices along the demand curve. Note: You will not be graded on any changes made to this graph. 120 110 100 Total Revenue 90 B0 70 50 40 30 20 10 Demand 10 20 30 40 50 70 90 100 110 120 QUANTITY (Bippitybops) PRICE (Dollars per bippitybop)16 5 Use the table below to answer questions about Christina's Christmas Wreaths. Christina operates in a perfectly competitive market for wreaths. Christina's Costs and Revenue Quantity Average Variable (wreaths) Cost (dollars) 5 $14.00 6 - 15.00 7 CALL/M 16.00 8 22.00 9 28.00 10 34.00 wreaths Average Total Cost (dollars) $24.00 23.00 23.00 28.00 34.00 39.00 $ Instructions: In part a, enter your answer as a whole number. In parts b and c, round your answers to two decimal places. a. What is the profit-maximizing level of output for Christina's Christmas Wreaths? Marginal Cost (dollars) $20.00 b. What is the profit per unit if the profit-maximizing level of output is produced? $ olo L c. What is the total economic profit generated by producing the profit-maximizing output? $ % Marginal Revenue (dollars) $63.00 63.00 63.00 63.00 63.00 63.00 22.00 23.00 BIEL 63.00 82.00 TAO 84.00V See Hint Suppose that Juan sells burritos. The total cost of production, based on the number of burritos produced, is shown in the following table. Number of burritos Total cost ($) 1. 8) 2. 10 3) 13 4. 18 25 34 7. 45 Suppose that the price is $6. Assuming profit maximization, how many burritos will Juan sell? asopdne