firms often pursue other objectives on a day-to-day basis. Some firms set their sights on maximizing sales. For other firms the owners or employees are inclined to enhance personal living standards. And more than a few firms take steps that promote the overall welfare of society. In some cases‚ these other objectives help a firm pursue profit maximization. In other cases‚ they prevent a firm from maximizing profit. Profit Maximization Profit maximization is the process of obtaining the highest
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total revenue and had a marginal revenue of $10 for the last unit produced and sold. What is the average revenue per unit‚ and how many units were sold? a. $5 and 50 b. $5 and 100 c. $10 and 50 d. $10 and 100 When a profit-maximizing firm in a competitive market has zero economic profit‚ accounting profit a. is negative (accounting losses). b. is positive. c. is also zero. d. could be positive‚ negative or zero. When a competitive firm triples the amount of output it sells‚ a. its total revenue triples
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monopolist chooses the amount of output to produce by finding the quantity at which marginal revenue equals marginal cost. It finds the price to charge by finding the point on the demand curve that corresponds to that quantity. 3. A monopolist produces a quantity of output that is less than the quantity of output that maximizes total surplus because it produces the quantity at which marginal cost equals marginal revenue rather than the quantity at which marginal cost equals price. This lower production level
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Chapter 9 1. All firms‚ no matter what type of firm structure they are producing in‚ make their production decisions based on where: marginal revenue equals marginal costs. 2. According to the table below‚ when profits are maximized‚ profits are equal to: $2. 3. Many economists believe that the market for wheat in the United States is an almost perfectly competitive market. If one firm discovers a technology that makes their wheat taste better and have fewer calories than all other wheat
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A minimum wage policy induces an: Select one: a. elastic labor supply response. b. excess supply of labor. Correct c. excess demand for labor. d. efficient market outcome. Suppose the demand and supply curve for good X are as follows: PD = 533 – 5Q PS = 122 + 3Q where P is the price of X and Q is the quantity. Suppose an excise tax of $8 per unit of X is assessed on this market. What is the new equilibrium quantity of X? Answer Feedback The correct answer is: 50.375 Use
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daughter Gina is vice-president of production. Fiori Pasta produces high-quality pasta products. It has estimated its demand curve for its pasta to be P=39.898-0.03757Q‚ This demand function has been given in terms of price. So to find the Total Revenue (TR) you need to multiply the above equation into Q (which is your quantity). TR=39.898Q-0.03757Q2 MR=39.898-0.0751Q where Q represents thousands of cartons (each containing five dozen packets of pasta) demanded per year by its wholesale
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To obtain the profit maximizing output quantity‚ we start by recognizing that profit is equal to total revenue (TR) minus total cost (TC). Given a table of costs and revenues at each quantity‚ we can either compute equations or plot the data directly on a graph. (Lipsey‚ 2011) Figure 1.Illustration of Profit Maximization using TR-TC Approach. A method in determining the Profit and the Loss of a certain Company is one of the fundamentals in Economics. The profit-maximizing output is the one at
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CASE #4: G.G. Toys 1. Do you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing (ABC) in the Chicago plant as it is allocating its entire manufacturing overhead on the basis of just one cost driver: production run direct labor cost. Since overhead at the Chicago plant is high‚ accurate cost accounting system is required
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Chapter 7 1) For each of the following graphs‚ identify the firm’s profit-maximizing (or loss minimizing) output. Is each firm making a profit? If not‚ should the firm continue to produce in the short run? In the first graph‚ the firm is losing money‚ but it should not shut down because P > AVC. So the loss minimizing choice is to stay in business in the short run. To shut down would lead to higher losses equal to fixed costs and these losses would be more than the current losses. In the
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