Economics:
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Author: BOYES, William
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Chapter 23, Problem 6E
To determine
To calculate:
The accounting profit and economic profit.
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b) If the market price is $8 per ice tea and the firm is producing six (6) ice tea per hour, is the firm maximizing profit or not? Why or why not? If the firm is not maximizing profit, what should it do to maximize profit?
c) At the price of $8 per ice tea, what is the firm’s profit-maximizing level of output? Why is this the profit maximizing level of output? What is the firm’s economic profit at…
The following are the cost information of a typical ice tea company in an industry with 100 firms.
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3
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d) Is the price $8 a short-run or long-run equilibrium price for the industry? If the price is not a long run equilibrium price, what adjustments are likely to happen in the market for it to reach long run equilibrium.
e) What price must prevail in the market for a typical firm to operate in the short run? At this price, how many ice tea will be supplied by all firms in the market?
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