Suppose a firm sells its product in a competitive market. If the ongoing wage rate in a competitive labor market is $30 and the market price of a firm's product is $2, then which of the following statements is true?
A) The firm should continue to hire workers until the marginal product of the last worker hired is 2 units.
B) The firm should continue to hire workers until the marginal product of the last worker hired is 5 units.
C) The firm should continue to hire workers until the marginal product of the last worker hired is 10 units.
D) The firm should continue to hire workers until the marginal product of the last worker hired is 15 units.
D
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If a firm expects that the price of its product will be higher in the future than it is today, then
A) the firm will go out of business. B) the firm has an incentive to increase supply now and decrease supply in the future. C) the firm has an incentive to decrease quantity supplied now and increase quantity supplied in the future. D) the firm has an incentive to decrease supply now and increase supply in the future.