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Calculating an Unknown Input Price
A manufacturing firm has a total production cost of $4,500 for a specific batch of goods. The production process required 50 hours of labor at a wage of $30 per hour. The only other input used was a raw material. If the firm used 100 units of this raw material, what was the price per unit of the material? Show your calculation.
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