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Calculating an Individual's Producer Surplus
The surplus for a producer on a specific unit of a good is the difference between the price received for that unit () and the marginal cost of producing it (). The formula is: Surplus = . On a supply and demand graph, this surplus is represented by the vertical distance between the horizontal price line at and the supply curve at quantity . This calculation is based on the principle that the market supply curve represents the marginal cost of production for each successive unit.
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