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EverKleen Pool Services provides weekly swimming pool
maintenance in Atlanta. Dozens of firms
provide this service. The service is standardized, each company
cleans the pool and maintains the proper
levels of chemicals in the water. The service is typically sold as
a four-month summer contracts. The
market price for the four-month service is $125. EverKleen Pool
Services has a fixed cost of $3,500.
The manager of EverKleen has estimated the following cost
function:
SMC = 125-0.42Q+0.0021Q2
Where SMC is measured in dollars and Q is the number of pools
serviced each summer.
a. At what output level does AVC reach its minimum value? What is
the value of AVC at its
minimum point?
b. Should the firm continue to operate or shut down? Explain
why?
c. What is the optimal output level? Make necessary calculations
and clearly highlight the
optimum level
d. How much profit/loss can the manager of the firm expect to
earn?
e. The fixed costs rise to $4,000. What is the effect of such an
increase? Explain.