Exam 20: Cost Curves-Part B

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Rex Carr could pay $10 for a shovel that lasts one year and pay $5 a car to his brother Scoop to bury the cars, or he could buy a low-quality car smasher that costs $200 a year to own and that smashes cars at a marginal cost of $1 per car.If it is also possible for Rex to buy a high-quality hydraulic car smasher that cost $550 per year to own and if with this smasher he could dispose of cars at a cost of $.80 per car, it would be worthwhile for him to buy this high-quality smasher if he planned to dispose of

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if Mr.Dent Carr's total costs were 4s2 + 40s + 20, then if he repairs 10 cars, his average variable costs will be

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Recall that Touchie McFeelie's production function for comics books is 0.1J1/2 L3/4.Suppose that Touchie can vary both jokes and cartoonists' labor.If old jokes cost $4 each and cartoonists' labor costs $24 per hour, then the cheapest way to produce comics books requires using jokes and labor in the ratio

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Touchie MacFeelie's production function is 0.1J1/2 L3/4, where J is the number of old jokes used and L is the number of hours of cartoonists' labor.Touchie is stuck with 900 old jokes for which he paid 4 dollars each.If the wage rate for cartoonists is 6 dollars, then the total cost of producing 24 comics books is

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Touchie MacFeelie's production function is 0.1J1/2 L3/4, where J is the number of old jokes used and L is the number of hours of cartoonists' labor.Touchie is stuck with 1,600 old jokes for which he paid 6 dollars each.If the wage rate for cartoonists is 5 dollars, then the total cost of producing 108 comics books is

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