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If you draw a long run ATC curve:
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The long-run average total cost curve will show the minimum ATC for each level of production
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One difference between a partnership and a sole proprietorship is:
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A partnership can be owned by more than one person
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Which of the following is not an explicit cost for the owner of a clothing retail store?
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Time the owner spends working
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If a firm earns zero economic profit, it earns:
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A normal profit
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Marginal cost is equal to average variable cost when:
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Average variable cost is at its minimum
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When marginal costs decrease:
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The firm experiences increasing returns to scale
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Which of the following industries is likely to have great economies of scale?
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Aerospace industry, builders of airplanes
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In general, a firm will experience increasing marginal returns:
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On low levels of output
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When a manager determines how much of a factor of production a firm should use, she should look at the:
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Marginal product of the factor and its price
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In an industry with few economies of scale, there will be:
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Many very small firms
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In the long run:
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The level of every input a firm uses can be adjusted
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Which of the following is the correct relationship between fixed, variable, and total costs?
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FC + VC = TC
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Which of the following is an impossible combination?
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Negative accounting profit and positive economic profit
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Marginal cost is equal to average total cost when:
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average total cost is at its minimum
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One difference between a partnership and a corporation is:
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The owner of a partnership can be held liable for the firm's debts, but the owners of a corporation cannot
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The average product is:
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The average output created by each unit of input
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Marginal product is:
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The additional output created using one more unit of input
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Decreasing marginal returns means:
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As more production occurs, the cost of producing more increases
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When marginal product equals to zero:
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Total product is at its maximum
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The short run means:
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The period during which the use of some inputs into production can be altered
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As a firm gets larger, economies of scale come from all the following except:
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Bureaucracy increasing within by the firm
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Which factor of production is almost never included in a firm's fixed costs?
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Labor
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Increasing marginal returns means that:
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Increases in inputs cause ever greater increases in output
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Opportunity costs are included in (pick the best answer):
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Both implicit and explicit costs
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In the short run, as production increases:
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Fixed costs remain constant, but average fixed costs decrease
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Economic profit is:
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Total revenue minus explicit and implicit costs
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Which of the following is the most accurate statement about a firm?
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A firm buys factors of production in the factor market and coordinates their use to produce goods and services for the product market
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If a business earns a normal profit, that means:
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Economic profit is zero
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Which of the following is a cause of diseconomies of scale?
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Worker's feelings of alienation, or separation, from the company
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The U.S government owns the U.S Postal Service. The Postal Service is:
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A government organization