Consider a market where supply and demand are given by Q_X^S = 18 + P_Xand Q_X^d = 81 2P_X. Suppose the government imposes a price floor of $38, and agrees to purchase and discard any and all units consumers do not buy at the floor price of $38 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. $ 570 b. Compute the lost social welfare (deadweight loss) that stems from the $38 price floor. $