BUS 207 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Kilogram, Margarine, Marginal Cost

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Own price elasticity is always negative (assume the product is a normal good here). Suppose that the current price for a good is and quantity sold is 400 units. If goods are complements, definitely their: income elasticities are negative, income elasticities are positive, cross elasticities are positive, cross elasticities are negative. During that longer time, new models such as four-wheel-drive cargo vans appear. A firm is considering whether to increase advertising. Market conditions dictate a sales price of 27. 5 dollars per unit, and the firm"s marginal cost is 17. 5 dollars per unit. Quantity sold depends on advertising according to the formula. Q=0. 3a-0. 001a^2, where a measures advertising expenditure in dollars. Determine the firm"s optimal level of advertising spending. Taiwan is a major world supplier of semiconductor chips. A recent earthquake severely damaged the production facilities of taiwanese chip-producing companies, sharply reducing the amount of chips they could produce.