Consider a firm with the following total cost function: TC = 50 + 6Q + 4Q2 . The marginal cost associated with the given cost function is MC = 6 + 8Q. Assume the firm is operating in the short-run.
A) What are the firm’s fixed costs? What are the firm’s variable costs?
B) Calculate average fixed costs, average variable costs, and average total costs.
C) Suppose the firm is in a competitive market and is a price taker. Suppose the equilibrium price is P = 86. Will the firm participate in the market or shutdown? Determine whether the firm is able to recover its fixed costs when P = 86.
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Please answer questions 2 through 7
1. A deli raises the price of its deluxe cheeseburger from $9.50 to $10.50. The quantity sold falls from 125/day to 100/day. Calculate the arc price elasticity of demand.
2. Given your answer to (1), and given that the marginal cost of is $5, should the restaurant raise or lower its price of its deluxe cheeseburger to increase profits?
3. AutoClean does car detailing for $80 per car. Market research indicates that if the price was increased to $105 quantity demanded would fall to zero. Assuming that demand can be modeled with a linear demand curve, estimate the price elasticity of demand at $80.
4. The only thing that changes in Dullsville is the price of a stay at the Dullsville Inn. You've collected the following data on the rates charged (for a suite with 2 queen-sized beds and 'free' continental breakfast) and the number of rooms occupied. The Inn has 100 suites, and at no time were potential visitors turned away due to no vacancy. Use this data to estimate a 'constant elasticity' demand function. Estimate the price elasticity of demand.
Observation Rate per night Quantity (rooms rented)
1 $70 40
2 $65 50
3 $80 30
4 $52 62
5 $92 31
6 $64 41
7 $43 78
8 $74 35
9 $83 33
10 $54 52
11 $87 30
12 $84 28
13 $68 40
14 $43 69
15 $48 53
16 $78 34
17 $72 48
18 $58 53
19 $56 59
5 - 7. Next door to the Dullsville Inn is the Vagabond Hotel. Their rate for a single room is $50/night, with an average of 60 rooms occupied per night. Assume that the industry norm for the price elasticity of demand for hotels like the Vagabond Hotel is -1.6. Further assume that the demand function is reasonably approximated with a constant-price elasticity of demand functional form: Q = aP^b, where b is the price elasticity of demand.
5. Use the above information to calculate the value for 'a.'
6. Use the resulting demand function to estimate the number of rooms occupied if the price was increased to $60/night.
7. The marginal cost of providing a room at the Vagabond Hotel is $20. Use the markup rule for profit maximization to calculate the profit maximizing rate.
In: Economics
Said Al Hamli and his friend Khaled Al Masri are the owners of a small hotel, the Sun Star, in the Red Sea town of Hurghada. Close to Cairo, the resort town has grown from a fishing village to one of Egypt’s famous vacation spots. Hurghada is the gateway to many small islands and offshore reefs favored by recreational snorkelers and divers and many tourists combine their stay with excursions to the Nile Valley, the Great Pyramids and Luxor.
To take advantage of the growing numbers of tourists, particularly from Europe and the Middle East, Said and Khaled are planning to double the room capacity of their hotel by adding a second building to the already existing structure. Fortunately, Said recognized the great potential of Hurghada ten years ago, well before the town became a hub for recreational tourism, and bought the land adjacent to the hotel for relatively little money when it was still under construction.
Now, Said and Khaled are studying the new layout and trying to determine if the expected revenues justify the substantial initial investment of EGP 70 million ($11.8 million). According to their calculations, operating cost would rise by EGP 23.8 million ($4 million) in the first year, which would include hiring and training of new personnel, maintenance of facilities and equipment etc., and likely increase by about 5 percent per year thereafter. With an aggressive marketing strategy, Said and Khaled believe that a revenue enhancement of EGP 20.8 million in the first year is realistic and that a subsequent annual increase of about 15 percent for eight to nine years, with revenues leveling off thereafter, can be achieved. Ideally, Khaled would like to retire in ten years. Seeking advice from you, a knowledgeable friend, they share their detailed cost and revenue projections with you.
|
Year |
Cash (EGP) |
Revenue (EGP) |
|
0 |
−70,000,000 |
|
|
1 |
−23,800,000 |
20,825,000 |
|
2 |
−24,990,000 |
23,949,000 |
|
3 |
−26,239,000 |
27,541,000 |
|
4 |
−27,551,000 |
31,672,000 |
|
5 |
−28,929,000 |
36,423,000 |
|
6 |
−30,375,000 |
41,887,000 |
|
7 |
−31,894,000 |
48,169,000 |
|
8 |
−33,489,000 |
55,395,000 |
|
9 |
−35,163,000 |
63,704,000 |
|
10 |
−36,922,000 |
73,259,000 |
QUESTIONS
|
1. |
Determine the resulting net cash flow for each year; and compute:
|
||||||
|
2. |
Give your decision on each result in terms of the project’s expected profitability and Khaled’s ten-year investment horizon |
In: Accounting
Given numRows and numCols, print a list of all seats in a theater. Rows are numbered, columns lettered, as in 1A or 3E. Print a space after each seat, including after the last. Ex: numRows = 2 and numCols = 3 prints:
1A 1B 1C 2A 2B 2C
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int numRows = 2;
int numCols = 3;
// Note: You'll need to define more variables
/* Your solution goes here */
cout << endl;
return 0;
}
In: Computer Science
Covid-19 started a derived demand, for instance, the high demand for hand sanitizer led to the derived demand of the isopropyl alcohol market .
What are some other covid- 19 derived demand, beside facemask ?
Definition of "Derived Demand"
Derived demand is a term in economics that describes the demand for a certain good or service resulting from a demand for related, necessary goods or services. For example, the demand for large-screen televisions creates a derived demand for home theater products such as audio speakers, amplifiers, and installation services.
In: Economics
A person with a cough is a persona non grata on airplanes, elevators, or at the theater. In theaters especially, the irritation level rises with each muffled explosion. According to Dr. Brian Carlin, a Pittsburgh pulmonologist, in any large audience you'll hear about 18 coughs per minute.
(b) Find the probability of four or fewer coughs (in a large auditorium) in a 1-minute period. (Use 4 decimal places.)
(c) Find the probability of at least eight coughs (in a large auditorium) in a 32-second period. (Use 4 decimal places.)
In: Statistics and Probability
In: Economics
Consider a home theater system consisting of a television set, a receiver, a DVD player, and speakers. Draw a system diagram for this system. Include both components and links.What are the inputs to this system? What are the outputs? (Remember that the DVD player and receiver are both components within the system). Now draw a system diagram for the receiver subsystem. Include both its primary components and the links between them. What are the inputs and outputs for the receiver subsystem?
Do these inputs and outputs confirm to the links connected to the receiver in your system diagram?
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Fixed Asset Discussion:
Examples of sectors/industries in pathways could be:
In: Accounting
Barcelona Machine Tools. Oriol D'ez Miguel S.R.L., a manufacturer of heavy duty machine tools near Barcelona, ships an order to a buyer in Jordan. The purchase price is
€426,000.
Jordan imposes a
12%
import duty on all products purchased from the European Union. The Jordanian importer then re-exports the product to a Saudi Arabian importer, but only after imposing its own resale fee of
29%.
Given the following spot exchange rates on April 11, 2010, what is the total cost to the Saudi Arabian importer in Saudi Arabian riyal, and what is the U.S. dollar equivalent of that price? (Click on the
icon to import the table into a spreadsheet.)
|
Currency Crossrate |
Spot Rate |
|
| Jordanian dinar (JD) per euro
(€) |
0.962 |
|
|
Jordanian dinar (JD) per U.S. dollar ($) |
0.718 |
|
|
Saudi Arabian riyal (SRI) per U.S. dollar ($) |
3.731 |
The spot rate, Saudi Arabian riyal per Jordanian dinar is SRI
nothing/JD.
(Round to five decimal places.)
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