Use the information in the table to answer the below question.                       Production Possibilities Frontier         Number of hours worked   Total benefit   Total cost       0        0     0 10    300 100 20    550 210 30    750 340 40    900 500 50 1,000 700   Christian delivers pizza using his own car and is paid according to numbers of boxes that he delivers. Use marginal analysis to determine the optimal number of hours that he should work.

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Use the information in the table to answer the below question.

                      Production Possibilities Frontier      

 

Number of hours worked

 

Total benefit

 

Total cost

 

 

 

0

       0

    0

10

   300

100

20

   550

210

30

   750

340

40

   900

500

50

1,000

700

 

Christian delivers pizza using his own car and is paid according to numbers of boxes that he delivers. Use marginal analysis to determine the optimal number of hours that he should work.

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