Question

Wanda owns a lemonade stand. she produces lemonade using five inputs: water, sugar, lemons, paper cups, and labor. her costs per glass are as follows: $0.01 for water, $0.02 for sugar, $0.03 for lemons, $0.02 for cups, and $0.10 for the opportunity cost of her labor. she can sell 300 glasses for $0.50 each. what are wanda s total economic profits?

Answer 1

The cost of making one cup of lemonade = 0.01 + 0.02 + 0.03 + 0.02 + 0.10 = 0.18
Wanda sells a cup of lemonade for 0.50, thus, she always make a gain of 0.32 on each cup of lemonade. That is, Profit = 0.50 - 0.18 = 0.32.
For 300 cups of lemonade, Wanda profit's will be 0.32 * 300 = 96
Therefore, Wanda's economic profit is $96.