Maximizing Profit and Production Answer the following: What is the profit equation? What are the values of X₁ and x2 that maximize profit? What is the maximum profit? What are the values of X₁ and x₂ that maximize production? What is the maximum production? - Q = 10 + 2x₁ - .5x² + 8x2 − .2x² C = 2x₁ + 4x₂ P = 40, FC = 150

Maximizing Profit and Production Answer the following: What is the profit equation? What are the values of X₁ and x2 that maximize profit? What is the maximum profit? What are the values of X₁ and x₂ that maximize production? What is the maximum production? - Q = 10 + 2x₁ - .5x² + 8x2 − .2x² C = 2x₁ + 4x₂ P = 40, FC = 150

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1QTC

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

See image for question with sub-parts.
Only typed solution
1. Inputs K, L, R and M cost £10, £6, £15 and £3 respectively per unit. What is the cheapest way of producing an output of 900 units if a firm operates with the production function Q = 20K0.4L0.3R0.2M0.25? 2. Make up your own constrained optimization problem for an objective function with three variables and solve it. 3. A firm faces the production function Q = 50K0.5L0.2R0.25 and is required to produce an output level of 1,913 units. What is the cheapest way of doing this if the per-unit costs of inputs K, L and R are £80, £24 and £45 respectively?
In a fishery the long-run harvest function (harvest volume) is H(E) = aE – bE², with a, b representing positive constants and E is fishing effort. - Total cost is TC(E)= cE,with c being the unit cost of effort. Total revenue is TR(E) = pH(E), with p being the constant price of fish. Suppose that, because of an increase in world demand, the price of the fish from this fishery rises significantly. • Illustrate and explain the impact of this price-increase on the fish stock and the competitive level of effort (or employment) in the fishery. What can be said about the long-run impact on the fish catch? Is it positive, negative, or indeterminate? Explain.
Using the table (Check if the values are correct), answer the questions below: a. What is the firms total fixed cost b. Suppose the price of the product is 20 - What is the firms output level? - What is its profit (or loss)-per-unit at that output level? $ - What is its total profit? $ c. Now suppose the price of the product is $10. - What is the firm’s profit-maximizing output level? - What is the firm's profit or loss per-unit? $ - What is the firm's total profit (or loss)? $ d. At a price of $10, will the firm produce? e. If the price remains $10, what will happen to this firm in the long-run?
Price ($/slice) For the pizza seller whose marginal, average variable, and average total cost curves are shown in the graph below, what is the profit- maximizing level of output and how much profit will this producer earn if the price of pizza is $2.50 per slice? Instructions: In the graph below, label all three curves by clicking on the dropdown to select the appropriate label. Then, indicate the profit-maximizing level of output on the graph. 3.50 3.25 3.00 2.75 2.50 2.25 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 1.00 0.75 0.50 0.25 0 Cost Curves Tools -O Select ▼ Select ▼ Select ▼ Q* 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Quantity (slices/day)
Economists assume that by pursuing a strategy of cost minimization of production, most firms try to achieve profit maximization. Can you discuss the concept of an expansion path? If you can use a graph that would help me understand thank you
Funny Bunny is considering installing ice-cream stalls on Turtle Beach. The length of the beach is 5 miles long. On average, in a week, there are 1,000 swimmers come to beach and each value an ice-cream at $5. Transportation costs are $2.5. each ice cream costs $0.50 to make and there are $40 overhead costs per stall.1.find the optimal number of stalls for Funny Bunny?2.what is the profit at optimal number of stalls?
Lesson 8 - Costs Question 2
Increasing returns and imperfect competition: (a) The production function for the word processor is Y = X – 100 million if X is larger than 100 million, and zero otherwise. By spending $100 million, you create the first copy, and then $1 must be spent distributing it (say for the DVD it comes on). For each dollar spent over this amount, you can create another copy of the software. (b) The production function is plotted in Figure 6.5. Output is zero whenever X is less than 100 million. Does this production function exhibit increasing returns? Yes. We spend $100 million (plus $1) to get the first copy, but doubling our spending will lead to 100 million copies (plus 2). So there is a huge degree of increasing returns here. Graphically, this can be seen by noting that the production function “curves up” starting from an input of zero, a common characteristic of production functions exhibiting increasing returns. (Constant returns would be a straight line starting…
Consider the following total cost (TC) curve: 20 $/Q1 15 10. 5 5 MC 10 1 15 TC In the two graphs below, please (carefully) draw the marginal cost (MC) and the average variable cost (AVC) curves corresponding to the TC curve. Please identify the coordinates of the point on each curve at Q=3 (three) and Q = 15 (fifteen). That is, what is MC and AVC at Q=3 and = 15? Still, in other words, identify the coordinates of two points on each of the two curves. Output AVC
Which of the following statements is correct with respect to profit maximization? PLEASE EXPLAIN A. If the total revenue and the total cost functions are linear functions, and the total revenue function is above the total cost function, the firm can produce as many as it wants and there will be economic profits. B. If the total revenue and the total cost functions are linear functions, but the total revenue function is below the total cost function, the optimal output is zero. C. If the total cost function is linear, the total revenue function is quadratic with an inverted U shape, and there are output where the total revenue is greater than the total cost, there is a unique optimal output that maximizes profits D. A and C are correct E. A, B and C are correct