Question 2 $165 $160 $155 $150 $145 $140 $135 $130 $125 $120 $115 $110 $105 $100 $95 $90 $85 $80 0 1 2 3 4 MC ATC AVC 1 pts 5 6 7 8 Quantity of Output Produced (q) The graph above shows the short-run cost functions for a perfectly competitive profit maximizing firm. If the market price of the product equals $130 per unit: The firm will produce units and will make an economic profit of dollars in which case the producer surplus will equal dollars. Note: The ATC numbers may not be accurate due to rounding. You'd better double check the numbers by calculating the ATC numbers off AVC and FC numbers.
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MC ATC $30 $26 $18 AVC 100 140, 160, 170 q For the firm cost curves depicted in the above graph, at a market price of $18, the profit maximizing (or loss minimizing) level of output would be while at a price of $8 it would be. At a price of $26, a profit maximizing firm would earn a profit of $. At an output of 170, the total variable cost would be $.
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