ECO111 Individual Assignment 02 PDF

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Individual Assignment 02 Question 1. (2 points) 1. You can allocate your time for the next four years between studying and working at a car wash. Each semester you spend studying you can earn 15 credit hours and each semester you work at the car wash you wash 800 cars. If you have 8 semesters to allocate, label each of the following on a graph. a. Your production possibilities curve (0.5) b. A point that is unattainable (0.5) c. A point that is efficient (0.5) d. Plot and label a point on your graph that represents a decision to take a semester off from both studying and working. (0.5)

2. Refer to the graph provided to answer the following questions. (2 points) Price Supply 7

5

3 Demand 0 100

175

220

Quantity demanded

a. What are the equilibrium price and quantity in this market? (0.5) b. What is the effect of a price ceiling of $3 placed on this market? (0.5) c. What is the effect of a price ceiling of $7 placed on this market? (0.5) d. If price in this market is $7, explain the adjustment process that will bring the market back to equilibrium. (0.5) 3. Graph the effect on equilibrium price and quantity in the market for oranges for each of the following changes (graph each one separately). (2 points) a. A chemical routinely sprayed on orange orchards is found to cause cancer.(0.5) b. The wages of farm workers increase. (0.5) c. A new orange picking machine is invented. For the same cost, it can pick more oranges, faster, and with less damage than other machines. (0.5) d. Consumer income falls. (0.25) e. The price of tangerines falls. (0.25) Question 2 (2 points) 1. You operate your own business selling college t-shirts. The demand schedule for your t-shirts is as follows: P = 25 - 0.5Q. a. Graph the demand curve for your t-shirts. (0.5) b. Calculate the price elasticity of demand when price equals $10. (0.5) c. In what range does price elasticity of demand fall at $10 (elastic, unit elastic, inelastic)? (0.5) d. If your goal is to maximize total revenue, how should you change price if you are currently charging $10? (0.5)

2a.Use the information in the graph below to find price elasticity of supply at point A. (0.25) Price

Supply

7

4

0

A

20

30

Quantity Demanded

2b. Based on the elasticity of supply in part a, if price increases by 10%, by how much will quantity supplied change? (0.25) 2c. What will happen to the price elasticity of supply, in each of the following cases (becomes more inelastic, more elastic, or does not change)? (0.5) i. inputs become easier to transport ii. new inputs into production of the good are found iii. the firm moves from the short-run to the long-run Question 3. Which of the following is true for a vertical supply curve? (1point) a. Price elasticity of supply is perfect elastic b. Quantity supplied is very responsive to price changes c. Price elasticity of supply is inelastic d. Price elasticity of supply is infinite e. Quantity supplied is negatively related to price

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