Seton is interested in reducing costs while maintaining quality and patient satisfaction. You have been hired by the Seton Hospital System to improve efficiency. In particular, Seton believes that it is not efficiently combining physician labor hours (L) and physical capital units (K) in producing stent surgeries. Assume that we know that the production function is Q = KL. Assume that the price of L is $1/hr and the price of K is $4 per unit. a. How might Seton use more capital and less labor to install the same stent? What does that real-life tradeoff look like?
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- A delivery company is considering adding another vehicle to its delivery fleet; each vehicle is rented for $300 per day. Assume that the additional vehicle would be capable of delivering 1,750 packages per day and that each package that is delivered brings in $0.30 in revenue. Also assume that adding the delivery vehicle would not affect any other costs. Instructions: Enter your answers rounded to 2 decimal places. a. What is the MRP? What is the MRC? MRP = $ MRC = $ %3D Should the firm add this delivery vehicle: Yes b. Now suppose that the cost of renting a vehicle doubles to $600 per day. What are the MRP and MRC? MRP = $ MRC = Should the firm add a delivery vehicle under these circumstances: No c. Next suppose that the cost of renting a vehicle falls back down to $300 per day but, due to extremely congested freeways, an additional vehicle would only be able to deliver 750 packages per day. What are the MRP and MRC in this situation? MRP = $ MRC = $A toll road commission is planning to locate garages for tow trucks along a 94-mile circular highway. Each garage has a fixed cost of $4,500 per day. Towing jobs are equally likely along any point of the highway, and cost per mile towed is $47. If there were 4,500 towing jobs per day, what number of garages would minimize the sum of the fixed costs and towing costs? Instructions: Enter your answer as a whole number. garagesNorthside Social (NS) sells cups of coffee and amazing breakfast sandwiches. The current price of a cup of coffee is $3.00 and the current price of an amazing breakfast sandwich is $8.00. At those prices, NS sells 1000 cups of coffee and 200 breakfast sandwiches daily. NS faces a constant marginal cost for each cup of coffee of 50 cents and the constant marginal cost of breakfast sandwiches is $2. NS increases the price of coffee 5%, to $3.15. After the price increase, NS sells 900 cups of coffee, a decrease of 10% in cups of coffee. Assuming the above, what if NS also changes the price of breakfast sandwiches from $8 to $10 (a 25% increase in price) and that the number of breakfast sandwiches sold decreases from 200 to 180 (a 10% decrease in quantity). Which of the following is true? A) Coffee profits and breakfast sandwich profits increase.B) Coffee profits decrease by more than breakfast sandwich profits decrease.C) Coffee profits decrease by more than breakfast sandwich profits…