Microeconomics
Unit 3 Practice Sheet (Video Help)
Part 1: Production Function- Use the table to answer the questions.
1. What is the marginal product of the 4th worker? Show your work. 3 units = (29-26)/(4-3) = the change
in TP divided by the change in number of workers
2. After which worker does the law of diminishing marginal returns set it? Why? After the 2nd worker.
This is when the marginal product begins to decrease.
Part 2: Costs of
Production- Fill in the
blanks in the chart and
answer the question.
3. Why does the marginal
cost of each unit initially
fall then increase as
more units are
produced? The law of
diminishing marginal
returns
Part 3: Cost Curves- Use the graph below to answer the questions. Show your work.
4. What is the marginal cost of the 8th unit? $9 (given
on graph)
5. Calculate the fixed cost of producing 4 units? $8 =
AFC x quantity = $2 x 4
6. Calculate the total variable cost of producing 9
units? $63 = AVC x quantity = $7 x 9
7. Calculate the total cost of producing 9 units? $71 =
fixed cost + variable cost = $8 + $63
8. Calculate the average fixed cost of 8 units? $1 =
fixed cost/quantity = $8/8
9. Why does the marginal cost (MC) intersect the
average total cost(ATC) at the ATC’s minimum?
When the marginal cost is below the ATC it pulls the
ATC down. When MC is above ATC it pulls ATC up.
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Microeconomics
Unit 3 Practice Sheet (Video Help)
Part 4: Perfect Competition- Use the graph below for a perfectly competitive firm to answer the
questions.
10. If the price is $8, what is the profit
maximizing quantity? Q = 50
11. Calculate the total cost at the profit
maximizing quantity. $300 = ATC x Q
= $6 x 50
12. Calculate the profit or loss at the
profit maximizing quantity. $100 profit
= TR - TC = $400 - $300
13. How much profit will this firm earn if
they increase the price $2 higher
than the market price? $0. No one
will buy. The firm is a price taker.
14. What is the profit maximizing price
and quantity in the long-run? P= $5,
Q= 35
15. If the market price is $5, will the firm earn economic profit, accounting profit, neither, or both? Why?
Accounting profit only. No economic profit because it would be at long-run equilibrium. TR = TC.
Part 2: Chart Practice - Use the chart to answer the questions.
16. If the market price is $15, what is the profit maximizing quantity?
5 Units (MR=MC)
17. Calculate the total revenue at the profit maximizing quantity. $75
= P($15) x Q(5)
18. Calculate the profit or loss at the profit maximizing quantity.
Profit of $21 = TR - TC = $75 - $54
19. Calculate the profit or loss of producing 7 units. Profit of $15 =
TR - TC = $105 - $90
20. Calculate the profit or loss of producing 3 units. Profit of $11 =
TR - TC = $45 - $34
21. Assume that the market price fell to $10. Calculate the profit or
loss at the profit maximizing quantity. Loss of $2 = TR - TC = $40 - $42 (*note* they will produce 4
units, where MR = MC)
22. If the market price is $10, should this firm shut down in the short-run? Why or why not?
They should NOT shut down. They should continue to produce because they are covering some of their
fixed cost. If they shut down they will lose $20 (their fixed cost). If they produce they lose only $2.
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