Consider an economy with only two businesses, called orangeinc and juiceinc. orangeinc owns and operates orange groves. it sells some of its oranges directly to the public, making $10,000. it sells the rest of its oranges to juiceinc, making $25,000. juiceinc uses the oranges it acquires to produce and sell orange juice to the public. the total revenue of juiceinc is $40,000. what is the value added by each business? compute gdp using the product approach and using the expenditure approach.

(a) $35,000 and $15,000

(b) $50,000

(c) $50,000

Explanation:

Given that,

OrangeInc sells some of its oranges to the public and making = $10,000

Remaining oranges sells to JuiceInc, making = $25,000

Total revenue of JuiceInc = $40,000

(a) Value added by OrangeInc = $10,000 + $25,000

                                                   = $35,000

Value added by JuiceInc = Total revenue - Oranges purchased from OrangeInc

                                         = $40,000 - $25,000

                                         = $15,000

(b) GDP using the Product Approach:

  GDP = Value added by OrangeInc + Value added by JuiceInc

           = $35,000 + $15,000

           = $50,000

(c) GDP using the Expenditure Approach:

In our case, the final consumers of oranges are households. Households purchases oranges worth of $10,000 from OrangeInc and juice worth of $40,000 from JuiceInc.

Therefore,

GDP = $10,000 + $40,000

        = $50,000

the first one $24,630