Suppose you are asked to analyze a competitive market with identical firms for the government. You estimate the following: Inverse market demand is: p equals 100 minus 0.01 Upper Q comma The long-run market supply is: p equals 10 Each firm's total cost function is: Upper C (q )equals 500 plus 0.05 q squared What is the marginal cost faced by each firm? MC = nothing Assuming the industry is in long-run equilibrium, how many firms are currently in this market? nothing (enter your answer rounded to the nearest whole number). Now suppose the government is thinking of restricting the number of firms to only seven. At what quantity will the long-run inverse market supply curve go from being horizontal to upward sloping? The long-run inverse market supply curve will become upward sloping at a quantity of nothing. (Enter your answer as a whole number.)

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?