9) A chocolate company makes truffles using labor and capital. The company pays the workers $12 per hour and machines used to make truffles costs them $4 per hour. The last employee produced 60 more truffles. The machines last produced 24 more truffles. Which method of production should this business use more of to minimize costs? Show your math.

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*Remember the least cost method is a lot like the utility maximizing rule from chapter one.
However, here we will make sure that we follow this formula:
Marginal Product of Labor/Price of Labor = Marginal Product of Capital/Price of Capital
If this ends up being equal then they are using the optimal number of employees and capital
(machines). If one is greater then the business would want to use that one more until the
numbers become equal.
9) A chocolate company makes truffles using labor and capital. The company pays the
workers $12 per hour and machines used to make truffles costs them $4 per hour. The last
employee produced 60 more truffles. The machines last produced 24 more truffles. Which
method of production should this business use more of to minimize costs? Show your math.
Transcribed Image Text:*Remember the least cost method is a lot like the utility maximizing rule from chapter one. However, here we will make sure that we follow this formula: Marginal Product of Labor/Price of Labor = Marginal Product of Capital/Price of Capital If this ends up being equal then they are using the optimal number of employees and capital (machines). If one is greater then the business would want to use that one more until the numbers become equal. 9) A chocolate company makes truffles using labor and capital. The company pays the workers $12 per hour and machines used to make truffles costs them $4 per hour. The last employee produced 60 more truffles. The machines last produced 24 more truffles. Which method of production should this business use more of to minimize costs? Show your math.
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