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I need to determining if an unprofitable firm should shut down its unprofitable operation.

The firm currently uses 70,000 workers to produce 300,000 units of output per day. The daily wage (per worker) is $100, and the price of the firm's output is $30. The cost of other variable inputs is $500,000 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.

I need to provide a report and not sure if it should be shut down or continue to operate at a loss.

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I need to determine if an unprofitable firm should shut down its unprofitable operation.

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The firm's daily revenues are: 300, 000*30= 9000000

The firm's daily cost: ...

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