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A new production technology for making vitamins is invented by a college professor who decides not to patent it. Thus, it is available for anybody to copy and put into use. The TC per bottle for production up to 100,000 bottles per day is given in the following table.
Instructions: In part a, round your answers to 2 decimal places. In parts c and d, enter your answers as whole numbers.
a. What is ATC for each level of output listed in the table?
output TC ATC
25,000 90,000 ?
50,000 110,000 ?
75,000 115,000 ?
100,000 120,000 ?
b. Suppose that for each 25,000-bottle-per-day increase in production above 100,000 bottles per day, TC increases by $5,000 (so that, for instance, 125,000 bottles per day would generate total costs of $125,000 and 150,000 bottles per day would generate total costs of $130,000). Is this a decreasing-cost industry?
(Click to select )No or Yes
c. Suppose that the price of a bottle of vitamins is $2.13 and that at that price the total quantity demanded by consumers is 75,000,000 bottles. How many firms will there be in this industry?
d. Suppose that, instead, the market quantity demanded at a price of $2.13 is only 75,000. How many firms do you expect there to be in this industry?


Sagot :

The ATC for each level of output listes in the table is computed as under. Yes, It is a decreasing Cost Industry. There will be around 1.53 firms in the industry.

Average total cost is the sum of all production costs divided by the quantity of units produced. Add up all fixed and variable costs, then divide by the quantity of units produced to determine average total cost.

In the given questions,

a. We know that,

                          Average Total Cost = Total Cost/Quantity

Therefore, the solutions for the same are computed in the form of a table and attached in the form of an image.

b. Here, also a table is attached in the form of an image and the calculations are computed for additional two items. So from the given table, we can conclude that, The cost of production increases with each 25,000 bottles, increase in the production above 100,000 bottles per day. The total cost is increasing by $5,000 but the average cost is decreasing. Therefore, the industry is a decreasing-cost industry.

c. The marked price is $2.13 at the price total quantity demanded by consumers is 75,000 bottles. At market price, $2.13, no firm will demand less than 75,000 quantity. There will be 1.53 firms in the industry.

d. The market quantity demanded at a price $2.13 is only 75,000. They expect only 1.5 firms in the industry.

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