If average product is increasing, then marginal product Select one: a. must be greater than average product. b. must be less tha
n average product.
1 answer:
Answer: Option (a) is correct.
Explanation:
Figure attached with this answer shows the two curves, namely, average product curve and marginal product curve.
Marginal product refers to the change in the total output divided by the change in the quantity of inputs used.
Average product is calculated by dividing the total output produced with the quantity of inputs or factors of production used.
The relationship between marginal product and average product is explained by three phases:
(1) Average product is rising,
Marginal product is greater than the average product.
(2) Average product is maximum,
Marginal product is equal to average product.
(3) Average product is falling because of diminishing marginal utility,
Marginal product is less than the average product.
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a. $700,000
b. 6/7 or 85.7%
c. No they will not.
Explanation:
a. Jacobs will earn the normal salary that the other designers in the other companies are getting in addition to the incremental income he brings to the company as a result of his talents.
Incremental income = Revenue with Jacobs - Revenue without Jacobs
= 1,000,000 - 400,000
= $600,000
Jacobs earnings = Normal designer earnings + incremental income
= 100,000 + 600,000
= $700,000
b. Economic rent is the excess amount that the company is paying Jacobs over what it should normally cost to get a designer.
Normal cost of designer is $100,000. Company is therefore paying an economic rent of $600,000.
Proportion of Jacobs salary that is economic rent =
=
= 6/7 or 85.7%
c. The company hiring Jacobs will not be making an economic profit because for them to make an economic profit they would have to be making more than the $400,000 that the other firms make. They cannot make this amount because for them to do so they would have to reduce the amount they pay Jacobs. If they do so, Jacobs would leave for greener pastures and then they would be making the same $400,000 that the rest are making.