Suppose a pie factory’s production function is Q=2KLQ=2KL, where Q is the quantity of pies produced...
Suppose the firm's production function is Q = 2KL where Q is units of output, K is units of capital (which are fixed at 2), and L is units of labor. a. What is the firm’s short-run production function? b. Over the labor input usage range of 0 to 5, that is L ranging from 0 to 5, graph the firm’s Total Product curve. c. Derive and graph the firm’s Average Product curve and the Marginal Product curve. Graph/plot them...
Suppose a firm has the production function: Q=2KL, where K is capital, L is labor and Q is quantity. If capital is fixed at 4 in the short run. What is the short run production function? A. Q=2L B. Q=8L C. Q=2K D. Q=8K
Question 7 (1 point) Suppose a firm has the production function: Q = 2KL, where K is capital, Lis labor and Q is quantity. If capital is fixed at 4 in the short run. What is the short run production function? Q=2L Q=8L Q=2K Q=8K
Suppose a firm has the production function: Q=2KL, where K is capital, L is labor and Q is quantity. If capital is fixed at 4 in the short run. Suppose the cost of a unit of capital is $2 (r=2), and the cost of a unit of labor is $4 (w=4). What is the short run total cost function in terms of Q? A. TC=4+Q B. TC=4+0.5Q C. TC=8+Q D. TC=8+0.5Q
Suppose a firm has the production function: Q = 2KL, where K is capital, Lis labor and Q is quantity. If capital is fixed at 4 in the short run. Suppose the cost of a unit of capital is $1 (r=1), and the cost of a unit of labor is $4 (w=4). What is the short run total cost function in terms of Q? OTC = 8+Q OTC = 8+0.5Q OTC = 4+ 0.5Q OTC = 4+Q Question 9 (1...
A plant’s production function is Q = 2KL + K . The price of labor services w is $ 4 and of capital services r is $ 5 per unit. a) In the short run, the plant’s capital is fixed at K = 9. Find the amount of labor it must employ to produce Q = 45 units of output. b) How much money is the firm sacrificing by not having the ability to choose its level of capital optimally?...
Suppose the firm's production function is given by q= F(K, L)= K2L with MPL=K2, MPK=2KL The price per unit of capital is 10 and the price per unit of labor is 5. Find the cost minimizing quantity of labor to produce 500,000 units of output. Please round to the closest integer.
Suppose the production function for automobiles is ? = ?? where Q is the quantity of automobiles produced per year, L is the quantity of labor (man-hours) and K is the quantity of capital (machine hours). a) What is the total product (number of automobiles) if the firm uses 25 man hours and 2 machine hours? b) Sketch the isoquant corresponding to a quantity of Q=50. c) What is the general equation for the isoquant corresponding to any level of...
[9] Suppose a firm produces according to the following production function: Q-KOL, where is the quantity produced, K is the amount of capital employed, and L is the number of workers employed. Accordingly, this firm operates under_returns to scale. A. B. increasing decreasing constant
Output for a simple production process is given by Q = 2KL, where K denotes capital, and L denotes labour. The price of capital is $25 per unit and capital is fixed at 8 units in the short run. The price of labour is $5 per unit. What is the total cost of producing 80 units of output? Numeric Answer: