Consider a market where supply and demand are given by QXS = −14 + PX and QXd = 91 − 2PX. Suppose the government imposes a price floor of $42, and agrees to purchase and discard any and all units consumers do not buy at the floor price of $42 per unit. Instructions: Enter your responses rounded to the nearest penny (two decimal places). a. Determine the cost to the government of buying firms’ unsold units. $ 882 Numeric Response Edit Unavailable. 882 correct. b. Compute the lost social welfare (deadweight loss) that stems from the $42 price floor.



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