29) As output increases, average fixed costs A) decrease. B) increase. C) remain constant. D) initially...
3. The contribution margin ratio increases when A) fixed costs increase. B) fixed costs decrease C) variable costs as a percentage of sales decrease. D) variable costs as a percentage of sales increase.
A firm's average total costs initially decrease because: A. at low levels of output, average fixed costs make up a large part of average total costs. B. at low levels of output, average variable costs make up a large part of average total costs. C. at low levels of output, average fixed costs make up a small part of average total costs D. the law of diminishing returns applies as output increases
a) Prices and output increase. b) Prices and output decrease. c) Prices increase and output decreases. d) Prices decrease and output increases 18. Assume that the Canadian economy is experiencing a deflationary (recessionary) gap and neither the Government nor the Bank of Canada are not planning corrective measures (policies). What will happen to Canadian prices and output (real GDP) as the economy slowly regains macroeconomic equilibrium? a) Prices and output will increase. b) Prices and output will decrease. c) Prices...
1) If the average product of 14 workers is 50 bushels of wheat and the average product of 15 workers of wheat is 55 bushels of wheat, then the marginal product of the 15th worker was ___________ bushels of wheat. So What is _____? 2) Which of the following is most likely to be a fixed cost for a bakery firm? A)Wages paid to workers B)Paying for ingredients from a food supplier C)The monthly electricity bill D)Paying rent each month...
Show work pretty please. 30. Average total cost a. b. c. d. e. increases as output increases. decreases as output increases. increases if marginal cost is increasing increases if marginal cost is greater than average total cost. both c and d 31. Amonopolist which suffers losses in the short run will continue to operate as long as total revenue covers fixed cost. raise price in order to eliminate losses exit in the long run if there is no plant size...
choose the correct answer21\ Identify which one of the following changes in supply curve occurs when there is an increase in price of product:A\ Increase in supplyB\ Extension in supplyC\ Decrease in supplyD\ Contraction in supply 23\If the price of a product increases by 10% and demand decreases by 25%. It is the situation of: A\ Relatively inelastic demandB\ Unitary elastic demandC\ Perfectly elastic demandD\ Relatively elastic demand24\ In the analysis of its elasticity, if the demand for product “A”...
Matching (15 pts) a.) Average fixed costs b.) Average product c.) Average total cost d.) Average variable cost e.) Diseconomies of scale f.) Economies of scale 9.) Fixed costs m.) Optimal output rule h.) Law of diminishing marginal productivity n.) Profit i.) Long run 0.) Short run 1.) Marginal cost p.) Total cost k.) Marginal product q.) Total product 1.) Marginal revenue r.) Variable costs 1.) Total revenue minus total cost 2.) The sum of total fixed and total variable...
1. Explicit costs include: a. variable costs. b. fixed costs. c. out-of-pocket costs. d. All of these are included in explicit costs. 2. Costs that are "fixed": a. None are correct. b. are those that will never change. c. vary with output, but not with resource prices. d. depend on what timescale you are thinking. 3. Suppose Larry's Lariats produces lassos in a factory, and uses nine feet of rope to make each lasso. The rope is put into a...
attempts: C D Keep the Highest: /1 L2. Shifts in cost curves The following graph shows the average total cost curve (ATC), average variable cost curve (AVC ), and average fixed cost curve (AFC) for Kate's Pizza Parlor when Kate pays her workers a wage of $15 per hour. a PRICE Dollars per OUTPUT Pumper day Suppose the wage Kate pays her workers increases to $20 per hour In the following table, indicate how each curve is affected, if at...
Average fixed costs: A. are perpetually decreasing as output increases, but at a decreasing rate. B. are perpetually decreasing as output increases, and at an increasing rate. C. are perpetually increasing as output increases, but at a decreasing rate. D. are perpetually increasing as output increases, and at an increasing rate.