With current technology, suppose a firm is producing 800 loaves of banana bread daily. Also assume that
Question:
With current technology, suppose a firm is producing 800 loaves of banana bread daily. Also assume that the least-cost combination of resources for producing those loaves is 5 units of labor, 5 units of land, 4 units of capital, and 1 unit of entrepreneurial ability, selling at prices of $40, $60, $60, and $20, respectively. Assume the firm can sell these 800 loaves at $1 per unit.
Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number. If you are entering any negative numbers be sure to include a negative sign (−) in front of those numbers.
What is the firm's total revenue?
$ is the CORRECT answer
What is its total cost?
$ this answer is INCORRECT. What's the correct answer?
Calculate the amount of economic profit or loss.
$ this answer is INCORRECT. What's the correct answer?
Will it continue to produce banana bread?
Answer: ?
If this firm's situation is typical for the other makers of banana bread, will resources flow toward or away from this bakery good? Answer: ?
Economics
ISBN: 978-0073375694
18th edition
Authors: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean M. Flynn