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Suppose a firm wants to calculate its total revenue. In addition to quantity, it would need to know _____.
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price
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Which of the following is an example of an explicit cost?
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materials costs
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The price of leisure is the ________ forgone wages.
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opportunity cost of
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The CEO of a large company believes that if he raises wages for his workers by 5%, this will lead to a smaller-than-5% increase in worker hours. The CEO believes that wage elasticity of labor supply at his company is ________.
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inelastic
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Under which of the following conditions will a firm take longer to earn significant profits, all else equal?
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a firm with high fixed costs
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In the short run, a type of cost that does not change with the level of output produced is a(n) __________.
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fixed cost
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A firm produces 1,000 widgets. It sells each widget for $1. In order to calculate the firm's average profits, one would need to know _______.
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total costs
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Which of the following is an example of an intertemporal choice in financial markets?
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to determine how much to save for retirement
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A decrease in the price of a product has a substitution effect and ________, which says that after the price decline, the consumer could purchase the same goods as before, and still have money left over to purchase more.
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an income effect
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Suppose a firm is currently experiencing diseconomies of scale. Over time, one would expect firm size to ______.
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decrease
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A factory that makes 1,000 widgets can do so at an average cost of $20 per widget. A factory that makes 2,000 widgets can do so at an average cost of $45 per widget. In this case, the market likely experiences ______.
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diseconomies of scale
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Refer to the figure. When a firm's long run average cost curve is tangent to its short run average cost curve at a point where short run average total costs are falling, that firm is experiencing _______.
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economies of scale
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Which of the following is a microeconomic problem?
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determining how many workers a firm needs to hire to maximize profit
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The rent for the store is an __________.
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explicit cost
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The cost for the delivery truck is an
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explicit cost
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The sacrificed $3,000 in interest that the business owner gave up when he removed $100K from his bank to start the business is an __________.
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implicit cost
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The amount spent on wages for the employees is an __________.
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explicit cost
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The sacrificed wage that the business owner cannot earn from their old job because they have started a new full-time business is an __________.
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implicit cost
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The difference between Economic profit & Accounting profit is & Economic Profit = Total Revenue - Explicit cost - Implicit cost
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Economic profit incorporates implicit costs into the cost models when calculating profit
B. Accounting profit = Total Revenue - Explicit cost
C. Accounting profit can overstate the profits if the business owner has spent a lot of money on implicit costs for the business
B. Accounting profit = Total Revenue - Explicit cost
C. Accounting profit can overstate the profits if the business owner has spent a lot of money on implicit costs for the business
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Fixed inputs are
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Inputs that cannot be increased or decreased in a short time in order to increase or decrease output
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Variable inputs are
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Inputs that can be varied within a short time in order to increase or decrease output
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The mortgage on the factory is a ___________.
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fixed cost
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The payment for the input of raw materials is usually a ___________.
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fixed cost
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In Economics, the Short run is
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A time horizon within which output can be adjusted only by changing the amounts of variable inputs used while fixed inputs remain unchanged; At least one cost is a fixed cost
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In economics, a firm that faces no competitors is referred to as _________________.
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a monopoly
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________________________ arises where many firms are competing in a market to sell differentiated products.
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The term _____________ is used to describe the additional cost of producing one more unit.
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total cost
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The term __________________ describes a situation where in the long-run, the quantity of output rises yet the average cost of production falls.
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economies of scale
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_____________ is calculated by taking the quantity of everything that is sold and multiplying it by the price it was sold at.
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Total revenue
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The long-run average total cost curve is unique because
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it allows all factors of production to change.
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Fixed costs are important because, at least in the ___________, the firm _______________
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Whatever the firm's quantity of production, _____________ must exceed total costs if it is to earn a profit.
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