Brenda owns a construction company that employs bricklayers and other skilled tradesmen. Her firm’s MRP for bricklayers is $16.50 per hour for each of the first five bricklayers, $15.50 for an sixth brick layer, and $14.75 for a seventh bricklayer. Given that she is a price taker when hiring bricklayers, how many bricklayers will she hire if the market equilibrium wage for bricklayers is $15.00 per hour?

David consumes two things: gasoline (q 1) and bread (q 2). david's utility function is u(q 1, q 2)equals70q 1 superscript 0.5 baseline q 2 superscript 0.5. let the price of gasoline be p 1, the price of bread be p 2, and income be y. derive david's demand curve for gasoline. david's demand for gasoline is q 1equals nothing. (properly format your expression using the tools in the palette. hover over tools to see keyboard shortcuts. e.g., a subscript can be created with the _ character.)