- For a perfectly competitive firm the price is $2 per unit. At this price the firm is producing and selling 10,000 units. It costs $1.50 to produce the last unit. Should the firm produce more? Less? Why?
- The Taste Freeze Ice Cream Store is a perfectly competitive firm producing where MR = MC. The market price of an ice cream cake is $5.00. Taste Freeze sells 200 ice cream cakes. Its AVC is $8.00 and its AFC is $3.00. Taste Freeze should?
- Continue to produce since price exceeds AFC.
- Shut down and produce zero ice cream cakes since price is less than AVC.
- Decrease production so that AVC would decrease.
Increase production so that AFC would decrease