In a slow year, Deutsche Burgers will produce 3.200 million hamburgers at a total cost of $4.600 million. In a good year, it can produce 6.200 million hamburgers at a total cost of $6.400 million. a. What are the fixed costs of hamburger production? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in millions rounded to 1 decimal place.) b. What is the variable cost per hamburger? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. What is the average cost per burger when the firm produces 3 million hamburgers? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) d. What is the average cost per burger when the firm produces 4 million hamburgers? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) e. Why is the average cost lower when more burgers are produced? The fixed costs are spread across more burgers. Variable costs are lower per burger. Fixed costs are constant per burger. rev: 09_25_2017_QC_CS-101934 Next Visit question mapQuestion 1 of 6 Total 1
In: Finance
Which of the following is not an example of a cost that varies in total as the number of units produced changes?
a. wages of assembly worker
b. straight-line depreciation on factory equipment
c. direct materials cost
d. electricity per KWH to operate factory equipment
In: Accounting
2. The table below illustrates the quantity of output (in units) and total cost (TC, in MYR) for a perfectly competitive firm that can sell its output at MYR 9 per unit.
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Quantity |
TC |
TVC |
ATC |
AVC |
MC |
TR |
MR |
Profit /Loss |
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0 |
3 |
0 |
- |
- |
- |
0 |
- |
-3 |
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1 |
6 |
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2 |
12 |
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3 |
21 |
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4 |
33 |
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5 |
49 |
a. Calculate the total variable cost (TVC), average total cost (ATC), average variable cost (AVC), marginal cost (MC), total revenue (TR), marginal revenue (MR) and profit or loss at every levels of quantity. Fill in the blank entries. Show your calculations.
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b. Determine the profit maximizing level of output and the amount of economic profit the firm is making at current price of MYR 9.
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c. Determine whether the firm will produce or not in the short run, given the following price levels. Calculate the amount of profit or loss at each level.
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[Total: 15 marks]
In: Economics
The market for wheat consists of 500 identical firms, each with the total and marginal cost functions shown:
TC = 90,000 + 0.00001Q2
MC = 0.00002Q,
where Q is measured in bushels per year. The market demand curve for wheat is Q = 90,000,000 - 20,000,000P, where Q is again measured in bushels and P is the price per bushel.
a. Determine the short-run equilibrium price and quantity of each firm.
b. Calculate the firm's short-run profit (loss) at that quantity.
c. Assume that the short-run profit or loss is representative of the current long-run prospects in this market. You may further assume that there are no barriers to entry or exit in the market. Describe the expected long-run response to the conditions described in part b. (The TC function for the firm may be regarded as an economic cost function that captures all implicit and explicit costs.)
In: Economics
The total cost concept is the most convenient method for determining a product's selling price if a company includes all manufacturing, selling, and administrative costs associated with the product in its reported cost. A markup is then added to achieve the firm's desired profit.
For example, assume that the following costs are incurred to make 10,000 units of a product:
Instructions
In: Accounting
A firm's total cost of producing Q units of output is C (Q) = 79 + 20Q. The inverse demand curve for the firm's product is P(Q) = 100-Q, where P denotes the price of the product.
a) If the price of the product is set equal to the firm's marginal cost, what profit will the firm earn?
b) If the firm charges a two-part tariff (a fixed fee plus a per unit price), how large is the fixed fee? How large is the deadweight loss?
In: Economics
Based on the table below, what was the profit of the firm?
| Quantity | ||
| Total Fixed Cost | $234,000 | |
| Total Variable Cost | ||
| Total Cost | ||
| Average Fixed Cost | ||
| Average Variable Cost | $62 | |
| Average Total Cost | $98 | |
| Marginal Cost | $177 | |
| Price | $155 | |
| Marginal Revenue | $79 | |
| Total Profit (loss) | ||
In: Economics
A firm's total cost of producing Q units of output is C (Q) =
200 + 50Q. The inverse demand curve for the firm's product is P(Q)
= 80-Q, where P denotes the price of the product.
a) If the price of the product is set equal to the firm's average,
how much will the firm produce? (5 points) Hint: choose the larger
of the two numbers. Show your work.
b) If the firm is under marginal cost pricing, how many units will
the firm produce? Show your work. (5 points)
In: Economics
A monopolist faces a single market with the following demand curve and total cost
P = 180 – 2.5Q and TC = 2Q2
i. Determine the quantity of output that it should produce and the price it should charge to maximize profit. Then, calculate the profit.
In: Economics
In a slow year, Deutsche Burgers will produce 2 million hamburgers at a total cost of $3.5 million. In a good year, it can produce 4 million hamburgers at a total cost of $4.5 million.
In: Finance