Unit 3: Are Businesses Efficient? Product Markets and Efficiency

Lesson 8/9a: Pure Competition: Characteristics and Short Run Equilibrium

Key Problems

Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a table - 1 - Click Here

Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a table - 2 - Click Here

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Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a graph with numbers - Click Here

 

 

Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a table - 1

1. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Refer to the above data. If the market price for the firm's product is $12, the competitive firm will produce:

A. 4 units at a loss of $109
B. 4 units at an economic profit of $31.75
C. 8 units at a loss of $48.80
D. zero units at a loss of $100

Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a table - 2

Answer this question on the basis of the following cost data for a purely competitive seller.

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Refer to the above data. If the product price is $45, the firm will:

A. shut down
B. produce 4 units and realize and $120 economic profit
C. produce 5 units and realize and $15 economic profit
D. produce 6 units and realize and $100 economic profit

Finding the profit maximizing quantity on a graph with numbers

MULTIPLE CHOICE: What is the profit maximizing level of output?

A. 15
B. 31
C. 28
D. 20

 

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