2. (3 points) Production. Beyonce uses equipment that she rents for $500 and ingredients that cost $8.52 a serving for the first 5 servings; for additional servings, she can buy the ingredients at a discount for $6.97. (She does any discount on the first five servings!) (Note that she signed a lease and pays the rent regardless of how many dinners she serves; note that regardless of how much ingredients she buys for additional servings, she pays $8.52 for the ingredients for the first 5.) She hires workers at $17 each and finds that they produce servings according to the following schedule: Servings Total Workers 0.50 TOMATOES 2 1.10 3 1.82 Canning Tomatoes 4 2.68 5 3.72 6 4.96 7 6.46 8 8.25 9 10.40 10 12.98 Figure 1 The Amherst farmers market is a great place to get beef and vegetables for your dinner a. (1 points) Calculate and and graph the marginal cost of each serving. (Use a spreadsheet and show your calculations!) Why does the MC curve have the slope (up, down, or flat) that it does? What happens to the slope of the MC curve as Beyonce produces more and more servings? Why