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Practice: Marginal Product

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Average Product and Marginal Product

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John makes 2 pizzas and then we add Eric and he makes 1 pizza. Each of them is paid $10.
More Fixed Costs and Variable Costs Questions:
When marginal product is rising, which of the following is true?
Which of the above curves is the marginal product curve?
Practice Question
Tony sells furniture. He pays $1,200 month to rent a warehouse and has a 3 year lease. Each day he has one friend Jerry whom he pays $100 to help him sell the furniture. Jerry sells on 200 units of furniture a month.
What is the fixed cost for one month?
What is the variable cost per month?
In the short-run capital is ___________ and labour is ___________ while in the long-run capital is ___________ and labour is ___________.
In the short run, a firm can vary
In the short run, a firm can vary
Factors of Production
The factors of production are
True/False:
When 
average total cost is falling, marginal cost must be
Suppose Thor's hammer makers increases its output from 20 to 25 hammers. Its total cost increase from $500 to $750. What is the the company's marginal cost of producing a hammer?
Fixed and Variable Costs
In the long run
In the short run
.
More Average Product and Marginal Product Questions:
When 4 units of labour are hired, total output is
Suppose a firm increases the quantity of labour employed from 8 to 9 workers, and as a result, the firm's total output increases from 850 units to 1100 units. The marginal product of the ninth worker is
Use the chart above to answer the following questions
Practice: Marginal Product
a) When 5 units of labour are employed, the marginal product is
5
b) ___True___False marginal product is constant for all levels of labour.
True
c) When 8 units of labour are employed, the average product is
6.25
Which of the following about average product and marginal product is always true?
If a firm is at a point where MP=3 and AP=5 then
Ten units of labour are hired and the resulting average product is 50 units.
Which of the following are always true? (more than one answer can be true!)
a) When 5 units of labour are employed, the marginal product is
5
b) ___True___False marginal product is constant for all levels of labour.
True
c) When 8 units of labour are employed, the average product is
6.25
Your business has 15 units of labor and the current output of milkshakes is 150 units. You hire one more unit of labor and the output increases to 155 milkshakes. What will happen?
When marginal product is rising, which of the following is true?
Practice: Marginal vs Average Product
Which of the following statements about the relationship between marginal product and the average product is correct?
When there is technological advancement,
As the quantity of labour employed increases,
Numbers listed are units of output for each combination of labour and plant size
If this firm is in short run and has plant size 4, what is its average product of labour when it employs 5 units of labour?
Average and Marginal Product
If a firm is at a point where MP=8 and AP=5 then an increase in one unit of labour will
Average Product
Ten units of labour are hired and the resulting average product is 50 units.
Marginal product and average product curves will shift up if
If a firm is at a point where MP=3 and AP=5 then
Which of the following are always true? (more than one answer can be true!)
Which of the following about average product and marginal product is always true?
If the firm changes from 4 units of labour and 2 plants to 5 units of labour and 4 plants, the average product per unit of labour
Marginal product and average product curves will shift up if