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Business: maximizing production. Southwest Appliances has the following Cobb-Douglas production function for a certain product:
Where x is labor and y is capital, both measured in dollars. Suppose Southwest can make a total investment in labor and capital of $600,000. How should it allocate the investment between labor and capital in order to maximize production?
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