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- 1 1 Consider the following cost function: c(w₁, W₂, y) = (w₁ + w₂)¹ y² (a) Find the marginal cost function, the average cost function, the supply function, and the demand function for input 1. (b) Sketch the supply curve and the demand curve for input 1. (c) What is the effect of an increase in the price of input 2 on the supply curve and the demand curve for input 1? Illustrate your answer. Solution: (excluding graphs) 1 1 дс MC = = 2 (w² + w²₁) ³y ду 1 _c_ (w² +w² )*y² _ y AC = -=-=-=- y 1 Supply: p =MC ⇒p = 2(w₁ +w₂₁) ¹y 1 1 1 = (w₁² + w²) ³ y To get demand for input 1, we use Shephard's lemma: x₁ = Cw₁ (w, y) = 4 (w^² + w² ) ² (; w₁, ²³y²) = (w ² + w² ) ² (w,₁ ²,²)b Now suppose Q = 2L +3K. Let the market price of L be w = 5 and the price of K be r = 4. Let both L and K can vary with production. Compute the input demand functions as a function of Q. (4 Points) c Calculate the marginal cost and average cost of the above function in subpart (b). Show them graphically. At what prices of textile will the producer shut down production. (3 Points) d Now suppose Q = 10LK. The market prices of inputs are as in subpart (b) above. Compute the input demand functions as a function of Q. Find the optimal production when the price of textile is $10 per yarn. (5 Points)The data below shows tabulation on the production of a hypothetical product.Output (Q) Total cost (TC)Units Kshs.0 - 251 - 322 - 383 - 424 - 485 - 586 - 677 - 788 - 98i. Using the above data, determine:· Total fixed cost · Average variable cost schedule · Marginal cost schedule Suppose this product is produced on a perfect market and the price of the commodity = 10, determine the output Q that will maximize the profits. What is the maximum profits achieved by the firm?
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- (a) Find the conditional input demand function for inputs 1 and 2, as well as the cost function for this firm. (b) What is the firm's marginal cost when it is producing y units of output?Question one Assume that the firm's operation is subject to the following production function and price data: Q=3X+5Y-XY Px = $3; Py = $6 Where X and Y are two variable input factors employed in the production of Q. (a) In the unconstrained case, what levels of X and Y will maximize Q? (b) It is possible to express the cost function associated with the use of X and Y in the production of Q as TC = 3X+6Y. Assume that the firm has an operating budget of $250. Use the Lagrange multiplier technique to determine the optimal levels of X and Y. What is the firm's total output at these levels of input usage? (c) What will happen to the firm's output from a marginal increase in the operating budget?Q3) the demand function and total cost function for a product are 6P = 660 − 3Q, TC = 80 − 20Q2 + 600Q (a) Write down expressions for: (i) Average cost, (ii) marginal cost, (iii) total revenue, (iv) Marginal revenue, (v) Profit. (b) Determine the values of Q for which total cost is a maximum. Calculate the maximum costs. Calculate the profit when total costs are a maximum. (c) Determine the value of Q for which profit is a minimum. What is the minimum profit?
- Consider the following marginal cost function MC= 5 + 2qi. (a) Does the production process exhibits increasing returns? decreasing returns? constant returns? (b) If the price is $23. What’s the optimal production level? (c) If the price is $31. What’s the optimal production level?1. A firm’s production function is , where Ldenotes the size of the workforce. Find the value of MPLin the case when: (a) L=1, (b) L=10, (c) L=100, (d) L=1000 Does the law of diminishing marginal productivity apply to this particular function? 2. Show that the price elasticity of demand is constant for demand functions of the form where A and n are positive constants. 3. The demand and total cost functions of a good arerespectively and a) Find expressions for TR, (profit) , MR, and MC in terms of Q. b) Solve the equation and hence determine the value of Q which maximizes profit. c) Verify that, at the point of maximum profit, MR=MC. 4. The cost of building an office complex, x floors high, in a prime location in Accra is made up of three components: (a) GH¢10 million for the land (b) GH¢1/4 million per floor (c) Specialized costs of GH¢10000x per floor. How many floors should the office complex contain if the average cost per floor is to be minimized? 5. The supply…Question 2: For this problem you will analyze the elasticity of substitution and the isoquant graphs for two different production functions F₁(K, L) = 4K + 2L F₂(K, L) = K²/³ [1/3 (a) Graph the isoquant for F₁(K, L) = 4K+2L that represents an output of 8. Be sure to show your work and label the axes clearly (b) What is the marginal rate of technical substitution (MRTS) for F₁ ? (c) What is the elasticity of substitution for F₁ ? /