Unit 3 Mt435-01

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Unit 3 Assignment Student Name: Tammy Palmertree Alam Please answer the following questions. Submit as a Microsoft Word® document to the Dropbox when completed. 1. Explain the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and total revenue. Elasticity of demand and total revenue are closely related as they both deal with Price and Quantity. If the product being sold has an elastic demand you may increase your revenue by decreasing your price for the product. Price would decrease and your quantity would increase which increases revenue. 2. Is the price elasticity of gasoline more elastic over a shorter or a longer period of time? Explain. It would be over a shorter period of time due to make sure policies set in place by the government are achieved. Consumption of gasoline has also decreased as people have increased their awareness to other means of car energy such as hybrids. 3. Determine whether each of the following is an explicit cost or an implicit cost: a) Payments for rented manufacturing equipment Explicit costs b) A firm’s use of a warehouse that it owns and could rent to another firm Implicit costs c) Wages paid to the firm’s workers Explicit costs d) The wages the firm’s owner could earn if he worked for another company Implicit costs 4. Consider the following information in the table for Pat’s Pizza Restaurant and answer the questions below. |Marginal Product of Capital |4,000 | |Marginal Produce of Labor |100 | |Wage Rate |$10

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