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Suppose an industry has 100 firms, each with a supply curve P = 50 + 10Q. Furthermore, suppose the market demand curve is given by P = 200 - 0.9Q. a. What is the industry supply curve? b. What is the equilibrium price and quantity for this market? c. How many units of output will be produced by a firm operating in this market with a marginal cost function, MC = 130Q?

          Suppose an industry has 100 firms, each with a supply curve P = 50 + 10Q. Furthermore, suppose the market demand curve is given by P = 200 - 0.9Q. 

a. What is the industry supply curve? 
b. What is the equilibrium price and quantity for this market? 
c. How many units of output will be produced by a firm operating in this market with a marginal cost function, MC = 130Q?
        
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Suppose an industry has 100 firms, each with a supply curve P = 50 + 10Q. Furthermore, suppose the market demand curve is given by P = 200 - 0.9Q. a. What is the industry supply curve? b. What is the equilibrium price and quantity for this market? c. How many units of output will be produced by a firm operating in this market with a marginal cost function, MC = 130Q?
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00:01 So here we have 100 firms and we have a supply curve for each.
00:05 Price is equal to 50 minus 10 and i'm going to call that qi, qi for each.
00:10 The key thing is that market supply is the sum of the individual quantities.
00:16 You can't add them in terms of price.
00:18 You have to add them in terms of quantity, right? if i supply 20 and you supply 30, together we supply 50.
00:24 So i need to rewrite this equation in terms of qi.
00:27 So p minus 50 is equal to 10 qi.
00:32 Qi is equal to p minus 50 over 10.
00:38 So the market supply, the industry supply, is 100 outside of p minus 50 over 10 because each of these people are willing to supply the exact same amount.
00:50 And that is going to be 10p minus 500 would be equal to qs.
00:57 Rearrange, 10p is equal to qs plus 500, p is equal to qs over 10 plus 50, right? that's the key...
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