Suppose a profit-maximizing monopolist is producing 900 units of output and is charging a price of $55.00 per unit. If the elasticity of demand for the product is negative 1.50, find the marginal cost of the last unit produced. The marginal cost of the last unit produce is $ 36.67 nothing. (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.) Required:
a. What is the firm's Lerner Index?
b. Suppose that the average cost of the last unit produced is $12.00 and the firm's fixed cost is $1000. Find the firm's profit.

Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances

Dan mcclure is trying to decide on how many copies of a book to purchase at the start of the upcoming selling season for his bookstore. the book retails at $28.00. the publisher sells the book to dan for $20.00. dan will dispose of all the unsold copies of the book at 75 percent off the retail price, at the end of the season. dan estimates that demand for this book during the season is normal with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 42. a. how many books should dan order to maximize his expected profit? b. given the order quantity in part a, what is dan's expected profit? c. the publisher's variable cost per book is $7.50. given the order quantity in part a, what is the publisher's expected profit?

Use the drop-down menus to complete each sentence. according to the theories of friedrich august von hayek, the economy may be too complicated to think in terms . hayek believed was dangerous and could lead to severe inflation. milton friedman supported changes policy to influence economic growth. answers : aggregates; expansionary policy; monetary