City A has a travel demand function q = 2.0 x 106 – 5000t, and road performance function 50 + 8 x 10-5q, where t is in minutes. There is a proposal to expand the road such tha %3D the road performance function will become t2 = 30 + 5 x 10-59, with a construction cos of $9.6 x 107.

t FI Search (Alt+Q) Draw Design View Help Table Design Layout Design Layout References Mailings Review As the manager of Lewis Inc., a company that produces lamps, you conducted a study of the production process. The study was based on 8 units of capital currently used by your firm. (This is the short run in which capital is fixed.) 1 Week 7 Assignment Compatibility Mode Saved to this PC Text Predictions: On @ 2 W 3 Per unit capital costs are $20 and the price of lamps is $12 each (this is a competitive market). Workers at Lewis Inc. are paid $60 per labor unit. (You can think of one unit of labor as one worker, and each worker is paid $60.) Fill in the blanks in the following table. Hint: Please follow Table 1 on page 364 of the textbook. Please note that a competitive, profit-maximizing firm hi 1 7 Labor (L) E 0 1 2 8 9 10 Accessibility: Unavailable $ 4 3 4 5 6 7 FI . R Q C Capital (K) F5 % 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 L T i F6 Output (Q) 6 0 10 30 60 80 90 95 95 90 80 60 Marginal Product…

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2) Alcem Pte. Ltd. Is in the business of manufacturing cement. The company sets up a 1 million ton plant. The total cost of setting up the plant is $100 million. The cost of Raw material/ Labor etc for producing 1 ton of cement is $ 40. The price of Cement is $80 per ton. Assume a Capital Cost of 10% (which is also its opportunity cost) a) What is the breakeven quantity of cement for Alcem? 250,000 tons b) In the short run, below what price should Alcem shut down? $40 c) If Alcem produces and sells 1 million tonnes of Cement, what is the Economic Profit it is making? $30 million d) If there are no barriers to entry in this business what would you expect