2. A local pizza shop is up for sale, the owner has set the sale price at $150,000. You have always wanted to own a pizza shop, luckily you have $150,000 in your bank account earning interest. The owner has said the cost of the ingredients for making any sort of pizza is $7 per pizza. The annual rent for the shop is $20,000 and the wages of the employees making and delivering is $40 per hour and other overheads (electricity and water) are $10 per hour. There are no other costs involved.
a) What is the opportunity cost of buying the pizza shop? What is the fixed cost? Explain.
b) What are the variable costs? If you make 20 pizzas per hour what is the variable cost of each pizza? c) What is the marginal cost of the 10th pizza?
3. There are 3 other pizza shops in your town, currently you sell your pizza's for $12 each, selling 200 a day. You are thinking of dropping the price to $10 each and have estimated that you will sell 50 additional pizzas.
a) What is the price elasticity of demand?
b) What will happen to your total revenue?