Question

Scenario 13-3 Ziva is an organic lettuce farmer, but she also spends part of her day as a professional organizing consultant. As a consultant, Ziva helps people organize their houses. Due to the popularity of her home-organization services, Farmer Ziva has more clients requesting her services than she has time to help if she maintains her farming business. Farmer Ziva charges $25 an hour for her home-organization services. One spring day, Ziva spends 10 hours in her fields planting $130 worth of seeds on her farm. She expects that the seeds she planted will yield $300 worth of lettuce. Refer to Scenario 13-3.


Ziva's economic profit from farming equals


a. $130.

b. −$130.

c. −$80.

d. $170.

Answer 1

Answer:

c. −$80.

Explanation:

The computation of the economic profit is shown below:

Economic profit = Total revenue - Cost of seeds - Earning foregone

where,

Total sales revenue is $300

Cost of seeds is $130

And, the earning foregone is

= 10 hours × $25

= $250

So, the economic profit is

= $300 - $130 - $250

= -$80

We simply applied the above formula to determine the economic profit