What are the marginal benefit-total benefit-marginal cost

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A cell phone company is considering investing in additional cell phone towers to improve its coverage and attract more customers. Total benefit is 200K - 2K^2 million dollars and each tower (K) costs 25 million dollars.

a) What are the marginal benefit, total benefit, marginal cost, total cost, and profit when it builds K towers? Treating its investment as finely divisible, how many cell towers should it build?

b) Now each tower costs 50 million dollars, how many cell towers should it build?

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