What is the marginal product of an input?
Marginal Product is defined as the additional output produced because of the employment of an additional unit of labour. In other words, it is the change in the total output brought by employing one additional unit of labour. Algebraically, it is expressed as the ratio of the change in the total product to the change in the units of labour employed, i.e.
MPL = TPn –TPn-1
Or,
Where,
TPn = Total product produced by employing n units of labour
TPn-1 = Total product produced by employing (n – 1) units of labour
What is the total product of input?
When does a production function satisfy decreasing returns to scale?
Let the production function of a firm be Q=5L1/2K1/2Q=5L1/2K1/2 Find out the maximum possible output that the firm can produce with 100 units of LL and 100 units of KK.
Why does the SMC curve cut the AVC curve at the minimum point of the AVC curve?
What do the long-run marginal cost and the average cost curves look like?
What does the average fixed cost curve look like? Why does it look so?
Explain the relationship between the marginal products and the total product of an input.
The following table gives the total product schedule of labour. Find the corresponding average product and marginal product schedules of labour.
What are the average fixed cost, average variable cost and average cost of a firm? How are they related?
What is the law of variable proportions?
What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?
(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?
(b) A horizontal line?
Explain market equilibrium.
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Marginal Revenue |
10 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?
What is budget line?
What do you mean by a normal good?
Explain price elasticity of demand.
Explain market equilibrium.
What is budget line?
How do the equilibrium price and the quantity of a commodity change when the price of input used in its production changes?
Explain why the budget line is downward sloping.
In what respect do the supply and demand curves in the labor market differ from those in the goods market?
A firm earns a revenue of Rs 50 when the market price of a good is Rs 10. The market price increases to Rs 15 and the firm now earns a revenue of Rs 150. What is the price elasticity of the firm’s supply curve?
List the three different ways in which oligopoly firms may have.
The market price of a good changes from Rs 5 to Rs 20. As a result, the quantity supplied by a firm increases by 15 units. The price elasticity of the firm’s supply curve is 0.5. Find the initial and final output levels of the firm.