Table 17-4 -Refer to Table 17-4.Dante Owns a Pencil Factory and Faces

question 9

Essay

Table 17-4

-Refer to Table 17-4.Dante owns a pencil factory and faces the situation shown in the table and the cost of renting a machine is $240 per week.
a.Fill in the blanks in the table and determine the profit-maximizing number of machines for Dante to rent.Explain why renting this number of machines is profit maximizing.
b.Draw Dante's demand curve for capital.

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