Answer:
c. 5
Explanation:
L Q MPL (ΔinQ/ΔinL) VMPL
4 52
5 60 8 80
6 66 6 60
7 70 4 40
8 72 2 20
Note: Labour hired per day = L, Total product = Q, Marginal Product of labor=MPL, VMPL =Price*MPL
A firm will maximize the profit by increasing the number of labor as long as VMPL is higher than or equal to the wage rate. In this case, we observe that VMPL ($80)>wage rate ($75) for L=5 but VMPL ($60)<wage rate ($75) for L=6. So, the optimal number of labor to be hired is 5.
Answer:
Forecasted sales
Explanation:
In the production process amount of inventory purchased for producing goods must be carefully calculated.
This avoids waste incurred from buying excess of materials needed for operation. Also when there is shortage of materials time and resources are wasted getting more materials.
So when calculating material requirements for finished products it is important that we consider sales forecasts.
Materials purchased based on this will just adequately meet the demand for product.
This reduce cost of storage of excess materials.
Answer:
The Supreme Court ruled that the name Coke was so well known around the world, that it is effectively a common term for the trademarked Coca Cola. If other companies try to use similar terms like Koke for other types of products, e.g. bakery items, there is a risk that the Coca Cola company would be negatively affected by that product's image since consumers might associate Koke directly to Coca Cola.
It doesn't matter if the products were low quality or not, the courts cannot determine that, what matters is that the use of the term may negatively impact another company.
A pure-monoply means that a company does not have to compete with other producers within the market. Since they aren't competing with a good or service, they aren't competing with each others customers either. When a company does not have to compete on price/customers they may end up being greedy and have market failure.
