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![Question 25
Consider a market characterized as perfection competition is described by the equations below.
Enter your answers in the boxes below. Show your work either in the text box immediately following
this question OR you take a picture of your written work and submit that picture in the the question
after the text box.
Demand: P- 825 - 0.15QD
Supply:
P- 25 + 0.25Q5
(5 points) Calculate the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity in this market.
Equilibrium Price is
Equilibrium Quantity is
Assume a representative's firm's production function results in a marginal cost curve as follows.
Marginal Cost: MC = 25 + 200q
(5 points) What is the firm's profit maximizing price and quantity (q)? (Hint: Use the profit maximizing
rule and the properties of the market structure to solve for these.)
Firm's profit maximizing price is
Firm's profit maximizing quantity is
Question 16
According to the neoclassical theory of labor, the wages workers receive
O reflect the market prices of the goods those workers produce.
O reflect the degree of market power held by the firms that pay those wages.
O fail to reflect those workers' opportunity costs of leisure.
O are unrelated to the forces of supply and demand.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F5481a1cb-f5cf-46c8-ab5d-610b141c43c4%2F6244f680-b422-4049-bae6-77f6d08f8dc1%2Fbu3ake_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Question 25
Consider a market characterized as perfection competition is described by the equations below.
Enter your answers in the boxes below. Show your work either in the text box immediately following
this question OR you take a picture of your written work and submit that picture in the the question
after the text box.
Demand: P- 825 - 0.15QD
Supply:
P- 25 + 0.25Q5
(5 points) Calculate the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity in this market.
Equilibrium Price is
Equilibrium Quantity is
Assume a representative's firm's production function results in a marginal cost curve as follows.
Marginal Cost: MC = 25 + 200q
(5 points) What is the firm's profit maximizing price and quantity (q)? (Hint: Use the profit maximizing
rule and the properties of the market structure to solve for these.)
Firm's profit maximizing price is
Firm's profit maximizing quantity is
Question 16
According to the neoclassical theory of labor, the wages workers receive
O reflect the market prices of the goods those workers produce.
O reflect the degree of market power held by the firms that pay those wages.
O fail to reflect those workers' opportunity costs of leisure.
O are unrelated to the forces of supply and demand.
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