Jonathan rome uses pots and pans to make gourmet applesauce that he sells at a farmers market for $12 per jar. pots cost $10 and pans cost $30; both last one month. in september 2003 he made 100 jars of applesauce using 15 pots and 6 pans. at the end of the month, his accountant discovered that the marginal product of the last pot used was 5 jars and the marginal product of the last pan used was 10 jars. what inequality tells us that rome did not minimize the cost of producing the 100 jars of applesauce?

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.