William is the owner of a small pizza shop and is thinking of increasing products and lowering costs. William's Pizza show owns four ovens and the cost of the four ovens is $1,000. Each worker is paid $500 per week.
Workers employed Qty of pizzas produced per week
0 0
1 75
2 180
3 360
4 600
5 900
6 1140
7 1260
8 1360
Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe youranswer for each question in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.
- Which inputs are fixed and which are variable in the production function of William's pizza shop? Over what ranges do there appear to be increasing, constant, and/or diminishing returns to the number of workers employed?
- What number of workers appears to be most efficient in terms of pizza product per worker?
- What number of workers appears to minimize the marginal cost of pizza production assuming that each pizza worker is paid $500 per week?
- Why would marginal productivity decline when you hire more workers in the short run after a certain level?
- How would expanding the business affect the economies of scale? When would you have constant returns to scale or diseconomies of scale? Describe your answer.