A Publishing House Is Using 400 Printers and 200 Printing

question 15

Multiple Choice

A publishing house is using 400 printers and 200 printing presses to produce books.The printers' wage rate is $20,and the price of a printing press is $100.The last printer added 20 books to total output,while the last press added 50 books to total output.In order to maximize the number of books published with a budget of $28,000,the publishing house

• A)should continue to use 400 printers and 200 presses.
• B)should use more printers and fewer presses because printers cost less than presses.
• C)should use more printers and fewer presses because the last dollar spent on a printer yielded more output than the last dollar spent on a press.
• D)should use more presses and fewer printers because the marginal output of the last press was more than the marginal output of the last printer.
• E)should use more presses and fewer printers because the last dollar spent on a press yielded more output than the last dollar spent on a printer.

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