In Spring 2020, COVID-19 spread through the workers at many meatpacking plants in the United States....

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In Spring 2020, COVID-19 spread through the workers at many meatpacking plants in the United States. As a result of the virus and steps made to reduce spread of the virus in meatpacking plants, the cost of processing cattle into beef rose. For the following quetsions, create an electronic file with your answers (could be created in Word or similar software, or could be a jpeg of a neatly hand-drawn graph and handwritten answers. 13. Carefully draw a supply and demand graph depicting markets for cattle and beef. (4 points) 14. What are the assumptions underlying your model. (1 point) 15. Use the graph to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 events described above on markets for cattle and beef. Explain what happens to the price of cattle, the retail price of beef, the retail-farm price spread for beef, and the quantity of of cattle and beef? (4 points) In Spring 2020, COVID-19 spread through the workers at many meatpacking plants in the United States. As a result of the virus and steps made to reduce spread of the virus in meatpacking plants, the cost of processing cattle into beef rose. For the following quetsions, create an electronic file with your answers (could be created in Word or similar software, or could be a jpeg of a neatly hand-drawn graph and handwritten answers. 13. Carefully draw a supply and demand graph depicting markets for cattle and beef. (4 points) 14. What are the assumptions underlying your model. (1 point) 15. Use the graph to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 events described above on markets for cattle and beef. Explain what happens to the price of cattle, the retail price of beef, the retail-farm price spread for beef, and the quantity of of cattle and beef? (4 points)

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