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Accounting Profit is equal to total revenue minus
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Explicit Costs
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Economic profit is equal to total revenue minus
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the sum of implicit costs and explicit costs
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If there are implicit costs of production, accounting profit will exceed
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economic profit
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If a production function exhibits diminishing marginal product, its slope
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becomes flatter as the quantity of the input increases
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If a production function exhibits diminishing marginal product, the slope of the corresponding total-cost curve
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becomes steeper as the quantity of output increases
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Which of the following is a variable cost in the short run?
Wages paid to factory labor
Payment on the lease for factory equipment
Rent on the factory
Interest payments on borrowed financial capital
Salaries paid to upper management
Wages paid to factory labor
Payment on the lease for factory equipment
Rent on the factory
Interest payments on borrowed financial capital
Salaries paid to upper management
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Wages paid to factory labor
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When marginal costs are below average total costs,
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average total costs are minimized
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If, as the quantity produced increases , a production function first exhibits increasing marginal product and later diminishing product, the corresponding marginal-cost curve will be
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U shaped
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In the long run, if a very small factory were to expand its scale of operations, it is likely that it would initially experience
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Economies of scale
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The efficient scale of production is the quantity of output that minimizes
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Average total cost
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Which of the following statements is true?
All costs are fixed in the long run
All costs are variable in the long run
All costs are fixed in the short run
All costs are variable in the short run
All costs are fixed in the long run
All costs are variable in the long run
All costs are fixed in the short run
All costs are variable in the short run
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All costs are variable in the long run