Question

Frank owns an apple farm and plans to spend 4 hours today picking apples. The number of apples he can pick per hour depends on the total number of hours he spends working in either the east orchard or the west orchard in the manner shown in the accompanying table below.

Hours in East Orchard	Number of Apples Per Hour	Hours in West Orchard	Number of Apples Per Hour
1	40	1	10
2	32	2	10
3	25	3	10
4	20	4	10

What is the marginal benefit to Frank of the 2^nd hour he spends picking in the east orchard?

Multiple Choice

• 8 apples

• 24 apples

• 32 apples

• 64 apples

Answer 1

Answer: 24 apples.

The marginal benefit of picking apple is the extra number of apple collection for an extra hour of picking it.

Hours in East orchard	Number of Apples per hour	Total number of Apples per hour	Marginal benefit
1	40	40	40 apples
2	32	64	24 apples
3	25	75	11 apples
4	20	80	5 apples

Thus, from the above table, we see that, the marginal benefit to Frank of the 2nd hour he spends picking in the east orchard is 24 apples.

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