Two Firms, a and B, Both Produce Widgets

question 83

Multiple Choice

Two firms, A and B, both produce widgets. The price of widgets is $1 each. Firm A has total fixed costs of $500,000 and variable costs of 50¢ per widget. Firm B has total fixed costs of $240,000 and variable costs of 75¢ per widget. The corporate tax rate is 40%. If the economy is strong, each firm will sell 1,200,000 widgets. If the economy enters a recession, each firm will sell 1,100,000 widgets. If the economy is strong, the after-tax profit of Firm A will be

• A) $0.
• B) $6,000.
• C) $36,000.
• D) $60,000.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, calculated as the square root of variance.

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Expected Number

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Probability Distribution

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