Question

Assume that labor and capital are the only two inputs a perfectly competitive firm uses to produce wheat. The firm hires its inputs in perfectly competitive input markets. The unit price of labor is $8 and of capital is $20. When the firm employs the profit-maximizing combination of these two inputs, the marginal product of labor is 2 tons of wheat and of capital is 5 tons of wheat. The price of wheat per ton must be

Answer 1

The price of wheat per ton must be $4 when profit-maximizing combination is employed.

What is Price?

This is defined as the amount of money that has to be paid to acquire a given product.

To get the price per ton for the company to make profit, we find the ratio of the unit price of labor to the marginal product of labor.

$8 / $2 = $4.

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