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ECO111 Microeconomics Class: Handed Out: Submission Due: Format: Submission Mode: Email To
ECO111 Microeconomics Class: Handed Out: Submission Due: Format: Submission Mode: Email To
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STUDENT INFORMATION
Name: ĐỖ HOÀNG ANH Roll number: HE150257
Room No: Class: MKT1608
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)
Point B
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)
Point C
3
Demand
0
100 175 220 Quantity demanded
a. What are the equilibrium price and quantity in this market? (0.5)
The equilibrium price = 5
The equilibrium quantity = 175
d. If price in this market is $7, explain the adjustment process that will bring the market
back to equilibrium. (0.5)
Supply shift left and demand low up
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)
Demand low and supply raise.
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)
Supply raise and demand low.
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)
P=10 => Q=30
P=15 => Q=20
P=20 => Q=10
b. Calculate the price elasticity of demand when price equals $10. (0.5)
E = P/Q x 1/0,5 => e = 0,67
c. In what range does price elasticity of demand fall at $10 (elastic, unit elastic,
inelastic)? (0.5)
Inelastic
d. If your goal is to maximize total revenue, how should you change price if you are
currently charging $10? (0.5)
Increasing P to the maximum, Q decreasing, we will get the maximum
revenue
2a.Use the information in the graph below to find price elasticity of supply at point A.
(0.25)
Price Supply
4 A
0 20 30 Quantity Demanded
4 = x + 20y
=> x = -2
=> e = 4/20 x 1/0,3 = 0,67
7 = x + 30y
=> y = 0,3
2b. Based on the elasticity of supply in part a, if price increases by 10%, by how much
will quantity supplied change? (0.25)
If the price increases by 10% then the supply increases by 20% because
elasticity = 2
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
Increase S and decrease D
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