ECON101 Lecture 19: lecture 19

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ECON101 Lecture 18: lecture 16

ECON101 Lecture 19: lecture 19

ECON101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Production Function, Marginal Product, Market Power

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1. In a perfectly competitive industry, an individual firm faces:

a. a perfectly elastic labour supply curve

b. a perfectly inelastic labour supply curve

c.a perfectly vertical labour supply curve

d.none of the above

2. A firm purchases more capital equipment. We would expect to observe:

a. an increase in the supply of labour for this firm

b. a decrease in the supply curve of labour for this firm

c.an increase in the wage rate paid for labour by this firm

d.an increase in the demand for labour by this firm

3. Which of the following would be h most likely outcome if all perfectly competitive firms in a product market join together to form a monopoly?

a. the rate of output in the market will increase but the quantity of labour input will decrease

b.both the rate of output and the quantity of labour input employed will increase

c.the rate of output in the market will decrease but the quantity of labour input will increase

d.both the rate of output and the quantity of labour input employed will decrease

4. what does the marginal revenue product equal when 28 workers are hired in one week?

Labor input (workers per week)__Marginal physical product (output per week)__marginal revenue

25_______________________150_________________________________9.00

26_______________________140_________________________________8.50

27_______________________130_________________________________8.00

28_______________________120_________________________________7.50

29_______________________110________________________________7.00

a. $210

b.$7.50

c.$900

d.$1040

5. The profit-maximizing firm will hire additional workers until:

a. the extra revenue by the last workers hired equals zero

b.the extra cost associated with hiring the last worker equals the price of goods produced

c.the additional cost associated with hiring the last worker equals the average wage rate of workers

d.the additional cost associated with hiring the last worker equals the additional revenue generated by that worker.

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Q1) Soundscape Enterprises manufactures Sonoblast, a device that produces a high-pitched reminder to telemarketers that they have once again disturbed you just when you were sitting 1â2 down to dinner. The production function for Sonoblasts is given by the formula Q = 2KL where Q is in units of output per period, K is in machine-weeks per period, and L is in labour- weeks per period. The machine rental rate r is $512 per machine-week and the wage rate w is $128 per labour-week. In the short run, K is fixed at 4 machine-weeks per period.

a. Give the formulas for the short-run production function and the marginal product of labour (MPL) function.

b. Express variable cost (VC), total cost (TC), and marginal cost (MC) as functions of L and as functions of Q; and average variable cost (AVC), average fixed cost (AFC) and average total cost (ATC) as functions of Q.

c. At what level of Q is ATC minimized? What are the values of ATC and of MC at this level of output?

d. If K is increased to a fixed 16 units, at what level of Q is ATC minimized, and what are the values of ATC and of MC at this level of output?

e. In the long run, with all inputs variable, what is the optimal K/L ration with input prices unchanged? How many units of L and of K would be required to produce the levels of output in 1c and in 1d and what is the average cost of producing Sonoblasts in each case? Explain the relation between your results here and those for 1c and 1d.

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4. A firm's short-run production function describes how the

A. Maximum possible output varies as the quantity of labor hired varies in a given factory.

B. Minimum possible output varies as the quanity of labor hired varies in given factory.

C. Maximum possible output varies as a firm enlarges the size of its factory.

D. Minimum possible output varies as a firm enlarges the size of its factory.

5. For U.S. Steel, the total product curve represents the

A. maximum amount of steel attinable for each quanity of variable input hired.

B. Minimum amount of Steel attinable for each quanity of variable input hired.

C. Lowest cost of producing various amounts of steel.

D. Maximum profit when producing and selling various amounts of steel.

6. Kaiser Aluminums total product Curve will shift upward if the firm

A. Hires additonal quanities of labor and materials.

B. Pays lower wages to accuire additonal workers.

C. employs more efficient technologies in aluminum production

D. Initiates work rules leading to falling productivity of labor.

7. Margianl cost is defined as

A. total fixed costs plus total variable cost.

B. Total cost divided bt the level of output.

C. The increase in total cost as a frim produces an additonal unit of output.

D. Total cost minus total fixed cost.

8. The range over which marginal cost is decreasing is the same range over which

A. Total product is Increasing.

B. Marginal product is Increasing.

C. Total cost is increasing at an increasing rate.

D.total cost is decreasing.

9. General motors will realize diseconomics of scale if an increase in plant size causes.

A. A decrease in a long-run average total cost.

B. An increase in long-run average cost.

C. The short -run total product curve to shift upward.

D. The short-run total product curve to remain constant.

10. For Boeing, thechnological advances in the production of jetliners will tend to shift the total product and marginal product curves

A. Downward, and total cost and marginal cost curves upward.

B. Upward, and total cost and marginal cost curves downward.

C. Upward, and no change in total cost and marginal cost curves.

D. Downward, and no change in total cost and margial cost curves.

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ECON101 Lecture 19: lecture 19

ECON101 Lecture 18: lecture 16

ECON101 Lecture 19: lecture 19

ECON101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Production Function, Marginal Product, Market Power

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