A Real Estate Developer Is Planning to Build an Office

question 31

Essay

A real estate developer is planning to build an office complex.Currently,there are three office sizes under consideration: small,medium,and large.Small offices can be rented for $600 per month,medium offices can be rented for $750 per month,and large offices can be rented for $1000 per month.Each small office requires 600 square feet,each medium office requires 800 square feet,and each large office requires 1000 square feet.The current plot of land available to the developer is 100,000 square feet.The developer wants to ensure that the office complex has at least 3 units of each office size.Use Excel to formulate and solve this problem to maximize total revenue.

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Definitions:

Optimal Scale

The size of a company or level of production that minimizes costs and maximizes efficiency and profit.

Long-run Equilibrium

A state in which all inputs can be adjusted by firms, market supply meets demand, and no economic profit is earned by firms in a perfectly competitive market.

Long-run Equilibrium

A state in an economy or market where all factors of production and economic variables are balanced, and there are no external pressures forcing change.

MR = MC

The condition under which profit is maximized, where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.