When a Perfectly Competitive Firm (That Sells Its Good for $20

question 21

Multiple Choice

When a perfectly competitive firm (that sells its good for $20 per unit) hires 1 unit of factor X it produces 70 units of output and when it hires 2 units of factor X it produces 85 units of output. Marginal revenue product of the second unit of factor X is equal to

• A)$30.
• B)$530.
• C)$265.
• D)$300.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as a basis for comparison with other normal distributions.

Random Variable

A variable that takes on different values randomly, each with a particular probability associated with it.

Standard Deviations

Measures of dispersion that indicate how spread out the values in a data set are around the mean.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric bell-shaped distribution that is widely used in statistics to represent the real-valued random variables with unknown distributions.