The graph below depicts the marginal revenue and marginal cost curves for a
farmer in the perfectly competitive blueberry market. The quantity of output is
measured in pounds of blueberries along the horizontal axis, and the per-pound
price of blueberries is measured along the vertical axis.
vertical
Price
$14
$12
$10
eft $8
$6
$4
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$2
MC
MR = P
horizontal
300 600
900 1,200 1,500 1,800 2,100
Quantity (Pounds of Blueberries)
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Part 1: Referring to the figure above, what is the price of a pound of blueberries?
$8
Part 2: Suppose that the farmer, whose marginal revenue and marginal cost curves
are depicted above, produces 300 pounds of blueberries. What is the marginal
revenue associated with the 300th pound of blueberries?