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You've been hired by an unprofitable firm to determine whether it should shut down its unprofitable operation.

The firm currently uses 50,000 workers to produce 200,000 units of output per day. The daily wage (per worker) is $80, and the price of the firm's output is $25. The cost of other variable inputs is $400,000 per day. Although you don't know the firm's fixed cost, you know that it is high enough that the firm's total costs exceed its total revenue.

Provide a report to management of the firm as to whether or not it should continue to operate at a loss? Be sure to show your work to support the decision you outlined in your report.

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The cost of wages in this scenario is determined.

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The price per unit is stated at $25 - so that's the average revenue
The costs in this problem are broken down into 3 categories: wages, other variable, and fixed.
To find cost of wages that are being applied to each unit first we find the number of units produced by each worker
(200,000 / 50,000) = 4 units/worker a day
Then we take one worker's wages for one day and spread ...

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