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Suppose the economy has access to 1000 Mahogany trees, used for making guitars. Processing the trees for guitar production costs $1 per tree. This economy may access 1000 additional trees (perhaps existing in the outskirts of the town) but it costs $3 to use each of those trees. Assume 5 trees are needed to produce one guitar.
Questions : (1) What is the Supply curve for guitar production? You may answer with a fully labeled picture.
(2) If the demand function for guitars is D(p)=220-2p, what is the equilibrium price and quantity in the market for guitars?
(3) Suppose the government wants to incentivize people to play more guitar, so they place a subsidy of $5 per guitar. That is, if the consumer pays p, the firm gets p+5.
Lets genaralize the information from question,
actual quantity = 1000, actual price = $1 per tree
new quantity = 2000 ( 1000+ 1000 additional) , new price = $3 per tree
to make one guitar, 5 trees are needed, means 5 tress = 1 product
in following pictures, answers given with graphical representation.
I hope these answers cleared the given parts of question.
supply curve is a basic curve that we can draw based on assumption values also.