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Consider a two-period model of a perfectly competitive firm that owns the rights to a finite deposit of a non-renewable resource. the firm’s total recoverable reserve of the resource is 575 tons, which the firm expects to extract fully over two periods. the firm’s total extraction costs are given by the function )=0.1qt2. the market price of the resource is expected to remain constant at $110 per ton. the market interest rate is 10 percent.(a) solve for the firm’s efficient extraction quantities in each of the two periods.(b) confirm that the efficient extraction quantities are consistent with the hotelling rule.

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