Smiling Cow Dairy can sell all the milk it wants for$4 a gallon, and it can rent all the robots it wants tomilk the cows at a capital rental price of $100 a day.It faces the following production schedule:Number of Robots Total Product0 0 gallons1 502 853 1154 1405 1506 155a. In what kind of market structure does the firm sellits output? How can you tell?b. In what kind of market structure does the firmrent robots? How can you tell?c. Calculate the marginal product and the value ofthe marginal product of each additional robot.d. How many robots should the firm rent? Explain.

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