ME Final Assignment
ME Final Assignment
Managerial Economics
Assignment
Question 1) A consumer spends all her income on food and clothing. At the current prices of
price of food = Rs. 10 and price of cloth = Rs. 5, she maximizes her utility by purchasing 20
units of food and 50 units of clothing.(Hint: Take food on x-axis and cloth on y-axis)
Question 2) Ali’s budget line relating good X and good Y has intercept of 50 unit of good X and
20 units of good Y. if the price of good X is 12, what is Ali’s income? What is the price of good
Y? What is then slope of budget line?
Question 3) Colgate sells its standard size toothpaste for Rs. 25. Its sales have been on an
average 8000 units per month over the last year. Recently, its competitor Sparkle reduced the
price of its same standard size toothpaste from Rs. 35 to Rs. 30. As a result Colgate sales
declined by 1500 units per month.
Question 4) You are given the following marginal utilities of goods X and Y obtained by a
consumer. Given that price of X = Rs. 2.5, price of Y = Rs. 1 and income = Rs. 11, find out the
optimal combination of goods
No. of unit Marginal utilities Marginal
consumed of X utilities of
of a Y
commodity
1 15 10
2 12.5 9
3 10 8
4 7.5 7
5 5 6
6 2.5 5
7 0.5 4
Question 5) Suppose the market demand for playing cards is given by the equation
Q = 600 – 100P
Where Q is the no. of decks of cards demand each year and P is the price in Rupee. For a price
increase from Rs. 2 to Rs. 3 per deck, what is the price elasticity?
Question 6) A publishing company plans to publish a book. From the sales data of other
publisher of similar books, it works out the demand function for the book as:
Q = 5000 – 5P
Find out
i) Demand curve
ii) Number of book sold at P = Rs. 25
iii) Price for selling 2500 copies
iv) Price for zero sales
v) Elasticity for fall in price from Rs. 25 to Rs. 20.
Question 8: Formulate the demand equations and estimate Qd for P=33 by using the following
data:
Price Quantity
level Demand
38 200
36 500
34 800
32 900
30 1000
28 1400
i. Determine the total fixed cost for producing 1000 units of output and 500 units of output.
ii. What is AFC at:
a) 1000 units of output
b) 500 units of output
iii. Determine TVC, AVC, MC and AC at 50 units of output.
Question 10: The demand function equation faced by PTCL for its computers is given by:
P = 50,000 – 4Q
Question 14: Suppose that the production function of the firm is:
Q = 100L1/2.K1/2
K= 100, P = $1, w = $30 and r = $40. Determine the quantity of labor that the firm should hire
in order to maximize the profits. What is the maximum profit of this firm?
Determine the level of output at which the firm maximizes the profit.
Question 19: Determine the best level of output for the above question by the MR and MC
approach.
Question 20: Determine the best level of output for a perfectly competitive firm that sells its
product at P = $4 and faces TC = 0.04Q 3 – 0.9Q2 + 10Q + 5. Will the firm produce this level of
output? Why?
Question 22: Find the optimum level of output and profit from the cost function
TC = 50 + 6Q2
and price
P = 100 – 4Q
Also derive marginal cost and marginal revenue.
Question 23: Suppose the discriminating monopolist is selling a product in two separate markets
in which demand function are
P1 = 80 – 2.5Q1
P2 = 180 – 10Q2
The monopolist total cost function is
TC = 50 + 40Q
Determine the price to be charged in the two markets and amount of output to be sold in each
market so that profit is maximized. Also find the total profit to be made from the strategy of
price discrimination.