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ECS2601 ASSIGNMENT 4 SEMESTER 2 2024 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.

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 2023  ECS2601-23-S2  Welcome Message  Assessment 4

QUIZ

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Time taken 11 mins 41 secs
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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?

a. R100,00

b. R75,00

c. None of the options are correct.

d. R50,00

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Question 3
Complete

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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 __________.

a. fall; fall

b. fall; rise

c. rise; rise

d. rise; fall

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Question 6
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Economic profit and producer surplus are similar since
they both focus on the total cost.

Select one:
True

False

Question 7
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What happens in a perfectly competitive industry when
economic profit is greater than zero in the long run?

a. Existing firms may get larger.

b. Firms may move along their LRAC curves to
new outputs.

c. New firms may enter the industry.

d. There may be pressure on prices to fall.

Question 8
Complete

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The market supply curves and market demand curves
for books are given as follows:
Supply curve: P = 0.000002Q Demand curve: P = 11 –
0.00002Q

The short-run marginal cost curve: MC = 0.1 + 0.0009Q

The equilibrium quantity of books is …

a. 1 000 books

b. 1 book

c. 500 000 books
d. 10 000 books

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ECS2601 ASSIGNMENT 4 SEMESTER 2 2024 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.

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