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Ernesto owns a house painting company. Total sales for the past year were $75,000. His bills for running the business were $30,000. Stan, who owns a furniture-making company, previously asked Ernesto to come work for him at a salary of $40,000. Ernesto's accounting profit is______ and his economic profit is ________$

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Answer:

Accounting profit = $45,000

Economic profit = $5,000

Explanation:

The computation of accounting profit and economic profit is shown below:-

Accounting profit = Sales - External expenses

= $75,000 - $30,000

= $45,000

Economic profit = Accounting profit - Implicit cost

= $45,000 - $40,000

= $5,000

Therefore for computing the accounting profit and economic profit we simply applied the above formula so that each one could arrive

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