Suppose demand is given by ??(?) = 1 – ? and supply ??(?) = ?, with prices in dollars. If buyers pay a 10 cent tax, what is the after tax demand? Do the same computations as the previous exercise and show that the outcomes are the same.

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  1. Suppose demand is given by ??(?) = 1 – ? and supply ??(?) = ?, with prices in dollars. If buyers pay a 10 cent tax, what is the after tax demand? Do the same computations as the previous exercise and show that the outcomes are the same.

  2. Suppose both demand and supply are linear, ??=?−? and ??=?+?p . A quantity tax is a tax that has a constant value for every unit bought or sold. Determine the new equilibrium supply price ?? and demand price ?? when a quantity tax of amount t is applied.

  3. The Manning Company has two factories, one that makes roof trusses, and one that makes cabinets. With? workers, the roof factory produces trusses per day. With n workers, the cabinet plant produces 5. The Manning Company has 400 workers to use in the two factories. Graph the production possibilities frontier. (Hint: Let ? be the number of trusses produced. How many workers are used making trusses?)

  4. Alarm & Tint, Inc., has 10 workers working a total of 400 hours per week. Tinting takes 2 hours per car. Alarm installation is complicated, however, and performing ? alarm installations requires ?2 hours of labor. Graph Alarm & Tint’s production possibilities frontier for a week.v

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