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The canola oil industry is perfectly competitive. Every producer has the following long-run total cost function: LTC = 2Q3 – 15Q2 + 40Q, where Q is measured in tons of canola oil. The corresponding marginal cost function is given by

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Martha is one producer in the perfectly competitive jelly industry. Last year, Martha and all of her competitors found themselves earning economic profits.
a. If entry and exit from the jelly industry are free, what do you expect to

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For the past nine months, Iliana has been producing artisanal ice creams from her small shop in Chicago.
She’s been just breaking even (earning zero economic profit) that entire time. This morning, the state Board of Health informed her

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The graphs below depict supply curves for John, Paul, and George, who are three producers in the perfectly competitive songwriting industry. a. If the price of songs is $1,000, how many songs will John write? Paul? George? The three combined?

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a. To maximize profit, how many pounds of potatoes should this seller produce? Suppose that the potato grower’s bank ratchets up the interest rate applicable to the grower’s adjustable-rate mortgage loan.
This increases the size of the potato grower’s

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Marty sells flux capacitors in a perfectly competitive market. His marginal cost is given by MC = Q. Thus, the first capacitor Marty produces has a marginal cost of $1, the second has a marginal cost of $2, and so

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a. The owner of the firm finds that marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal at 11 units of output. If the owner produces 11 units, what will his profit or loss be?
b. Suppose instead that the owner

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a. If Nancy is interested in maximizing her total revenue, how many pounds of beeswax should she produce?
b. What quantity of beeswax should Nancy produce in order to maximize her profit?
c. At the profit-maximizing level of

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A firm has a production function given by Q = 10K0.25L0.25. Suppose that each unit of capital costs R and each unit of labor costs W.
a. Derive the long-run demands for capital and labor.
b. Derive the

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Philo T. Farmsworth is a corn farmer with a 40-acre tract of land. Each acre can produce 100 bushels of corn. The cost of planting the tract in corn is $20,000, and the cost of harvesting the corn is $10,000.