Two firms, Thneeds-R-Us and Mucky Motors have access to five production processes, each one of which has a different cost and gives off a different amount of pollution corresponding number of tons of smoke emitted are as shown in the table below. What is the cost to Mucky Motors of moving from process B to process C? Process (smoke) Cost to Thneeds-R-Us ($/day) Cost to Mucky Motors ($/day) A (4 tons per day) 50 100 B (3 tons per day) 70 180 C (2 tons D (1 tons per day) per day) 200 1,000 120 500 E (0 tons per day) 500 2,000

Two firms, Thneeds-R-Us and Mucky Motors have access to five production processes, each one of which has a different cost and gives off a different amount of pollution corresponding number of tons of smoke emitted are as shown in the table below. What is the cost to Mucky Motors of moving from process B to process C? Process (smoke) Cost to Thneeds-R-Us ($/day) Cost to Mucky Motors ($/day) A (4 tons per day) 50 100 B (3 tons per day) 70 180 C (2 tons D (1 tons per day) per day) 200 1,000 120 500 E (0 tons per day) 500 2,000

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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