{"id":210571,"date":"2018-09-14T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/eco-202-module-3-assignment-2-lasa-1-the-cost-of-production\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:54:24","slug":"eco-202-module-3-assignment-2-lasa-1-the-cost-of-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-202-module-3-assignment-2-lasa-1-the-cost-of-production\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO 202  Module 3 Assignment 2 LASA 1 The Cost of Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Farms, Inc. is a small firm in the agricultural industry. They have asked you to help them complete the limited data they have gathered in an effort to enable effective decision-making. Some work can be done using MS Excel but it must be copied to an MS Word file for the final submission of this assignment. To assist Joseph Farms, Inc., respond to the following:\tdata is been given :\tUsing MS Excel or a table in MS Word, complete Table-1 (Joseph Farms, Inc., Cost and Revenue Data).\tAssume that the price is $165.\tAssume the fixed costs are $125, at an output level of 1.\tAssume that the data represents a firm in pure competition.\tShow your calculations in summary form.\tExplain the MC=MR Rule.\u00a0 Describe the market structures to which this rule applies.\tCreate a chart to illustrate the data in Columns 9 and 10.\tDescribe the profit maximizing (or loss minimizing) output for this firm.\u00a0 Explain why or why not there an economic profit?\tExplain why a firm in pure competition is considered to be a &#8220;price taker.&#8221;\ufffd\t\u00a0(Assignment continues below Table-1.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Farms, Inc. is a small firm in the agricultural industry. They have asked you to help them complete the limited data they have gathered in an effort to enable effective decision-making. Some work can be done using MS Excel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-202-module-3-assignment-2-lasa-1-the-cost-of-production\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}