ECS2601 BMZ ASSESSMENT 4 SEMESTER 2 2024 MASTER In a perfectly competitive industry, the amount of output that a rm decides to sell has no effect on the market price, because… a. the rm’s output...
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Question 1
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A firm producing six units of output has an average
total cost of R200 and has to pay R300 to its fixed
factors of production. The average variable cost is …
a. R300.
b. R50.
c. R200.
d. R150.
Question 2
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Suppose the city decides to sell permits. What is the
maximum price the vendor would pay for a permit per
day?
Consider the equilibrium in the market for carrots
expressed as:
Qs=2P Qd=21-P. If P = R7 and Q = 14. What is the
consumer surplus?
a. 98
b. 49
c. 3.5
d. 7
Question 4
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A sales tax of R1 per unit of output is placed on a
particular firm whose product sells for R5 in a
competitive industry with many firms.
How will this tax affect the cost curves for the firm?
a. Marginal cost becomes MC + 1
b. all of the options are true.
c.
Average cost is now AC + 1.
d. Total cost becomes TC + q since the tax rate
is t = 1
Question 5
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Suppose the competitive market is currently in
equilibrium. If government imposes a price control, we
would expect the consumer surplus to __________ and
the producer surplus to __________.
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