Production and costs

For this assignment, you will have to answer some purely conceptual questions as well as some numerical problems. For conceptual questions, make sure to thoroughly explain your answers and to cite specific readings from the required background materials to explain your answers. For numerical problems, make sure to show all of your work and explain how you arrived at your answers (partial credit can be given if you get the final answer wrong but do some of the steps correctly). Note that you need to use Microsoft Excel to do the graphs for the numerical problems.

Case Assignment

Part A: Conceptual questions

1. Suppose you own a television factory and at your current level of output you have average total cost of $800 per television, average variable costs of $700 per television, and a marginal cost of $400. If the price your buyers are willing to pay is $500, should you decrease or increase production? Explain your reasoning, and make sure to cite at least one of the required readings in your answer.
2. You are the owner of a restaurant, and currently you have only one waiter. While this keeps costs down, many of your customers go home because they are tired of waiting in line or waiting for their order. You hire four more waiters and waitresses, and you are now able to serve a dramatically higher number of customers. Seeing the huge productivity gains from hiring more staff, you then hire 20 more waiters and waitresses. However, you are not able to serve any more customers than you were able to when your staff size was only four. In fact, your restaurant has become overly crowded because there is not enough room in your restaurant for all of your staff. You are confused as to why hiring four more staff members increased your productivity, but hiring 20 more did not. What concept from the background readings best describes what happened in this case? Explain your reasoning.

Part B: Quantitative problems

The following table gives the total weekly output of bicycles at Als Bicycle Town. 

Table 1

• Complete this table.
• Draw the graphs of the marginal product (MP) and the average product (AP). 
• To learn how to plot the data in Excel, see  
• Where do the AP and MP curve cross?

  The cost of 1 worker is $2000 per month. Total fixed cost is $4000 per month. 

• Complete Table 2 using your answers from Table 1 and by computing total variable cost (TVC) and total cost(TC). 

Table 2

• Draw the graphs of the TC and TVC curves. What is the relationship between these two curves? 
• Complete Table 3 by using your answers from the previous Tables and calculating the AVC, ATC, and MC. 

Table 3 

• Draw the graphs of the ATC, AVC, and MC curves. What is the relationship between the ATC and AVC curves? Between the MC and AVC curves? 

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