Economics (Irwin Economics)
21st Edition
ISBN: 9781259723223
Author: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean Masaki Flynn Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17.3, Problem 3QQ
To determine
The demand for labor in a profit maximizing firm.
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a. Calculate and fill in the column of marginal products. What pattern do you see? How might you explain it? Hints: show your calculations. b. A worker costs $150 per day, and the firm has fixed costs of $300. Use this information to calculate and fill in the column for total cost. Hints: show your calculations. c. Calculate and fill in the column for average total cost. (Recall that ATC=TC/Q.) What pattern do you see? Hints: show your calculations.
The marginal product of labor is the change in
A) total cost from employing one more worker.
B) total revenue from employing one more worker.
C) total output from employing one more worker.
D) total output divided by the change in cost from employing one more worker.
E)
average product from employing one more worker.
Nimbus,Inc.,makes brooms and then sells door to door.Here is the relationship between the number of workers and Nimbus's output during a given day:a.Fill in the column of marginal products.What patterns do you see?How might you explain it?b.A workers costs $100 a day, and the firm has fixed cost of $200.Use this information to fill in the column for total cost.c.Fill in the column for average total cost.What pattern do you see?d.Now fill in the column for marginal cost.What pattern do you see?e.Compare the column for marginal product with the column for marginal cost.Explain the relationship.f.Compare the column foraverage total cost with the column for marginal cost.Explain the relationship.
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Economics (Irwin Economics)
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