2) The manager of a perfectly competitive firm is a price taker for both the prices paid for inputs and prices received for products. Which of the following are inputs that the firm manager controls and adjusts in an effort to maximize profits in the short run? C Increase prices of the product, increase sales, increase total revenues. Number of buyers, number of sellers, market size. Labor, fertilizer, feed, and pesticides. Short run, medium run, and long run a. b. C. d.

2) The manager of a perfectly competitive firm is a price taker for both the prices paid for inputs and prices received for products. Which of the following are inputs that the firm manager controls and adjusts in an effort to maximize profits in the short run? C Increase prices of the product, increase sales, increase total revenues. Number of buyers, number of sellers, market size. Labor, fertilizer, feed, and pesticides. Short run, medium run, and long run a. b. C. d.

Microeconomics: Principles & Policy

14th Edition

ISBN:9781337794992

Author:William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, John L. Solow

Publisher:William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, John L. Solow

Chapter7: Production, Inputs, And Cost: Building Blocks For Supply Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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Question 2 Suppose that market demand in an industry is Qd = 1225 – 5P. The long run production technology is constant returns to scale in this industry and long run costs are given as LC = 4q. (a) What does the long run supply curve look like? (b) What will market price be in the long run? Sketch a graph to illustrate what is going on. (c) What is the total level of output in the long run?
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(c) If the rent of the building the firm occupies increases, what will happen to the firm’s profit-maximizing quantity of hats in the short run? Explain.
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QUESTION 17 The law of diminishing returns indicates that A. the demand for goods B. because of economies and C. as extra units of a variable D. beyond some point, the extra utility derived from additional units of a product will yield the produced by purely diseconomies of scale, a resource are added to a fixed competitive industries is downwarde sloping competitive firm's long-run resource, marginal product will decline beyond some average total cost curve will be U- shaped consumer smaller and smaller point extra amounts of satisfaction