If Slick Shades has a constant marginal cost of production equal to $40 and the distributors have a constant marginal cost of distribution equal to $20, what is the profit-maximizing number of sunglasses (in hundreds) for Slick Shades to produce?
The figure above shows the wholesale demand and marginal revenue curves for Slick Shades Sunglasses, a sunglasses firm with market power. Slick Shades Sunglasses has a constant marginal cost of production and it sells to perfectly competitive independent retail distributors that have a constant marginal cost of distribution.
A) 90
B) 80
C) 50
D) 70
B) 80
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