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wages and salaries paid to workers are an example of implicit costs of production
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false
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total revenue equals the quantity of output the firm produces times the price at which it sells its output
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true
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If total revenue is €100, explicit costs are €50, and implicit costs are €30, then accounting profit equals €50.
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true
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If there are implicit costs of production, accounting profits will exceed economic profits.
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true
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when a production function gets flatter, the marginal product is increasing
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false
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if a firm continues to employ more workers within the same size factory, it will eventually experience diminishing marginal product
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true
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if the production for a firm exhibits diminishing marginal product, the corresponding total cost curve for the firm will become flatter as the quantity of output expands
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false
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Fixed costs plus variable costs equal total costs.
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true
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average total costs are total costs divided by marginal costs
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false
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when marginal costs are below average total costs, average total costs must be falling
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true
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If, as the quantity produced increases, a production function first exhibits increasing marginal product and later diminishing marginal product, the corresponding marginal-cost curve will be u-shaped
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true
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the average total cost curve crosses the marginal cost curve at the minimum of the marginal cost curve
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false
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the average total cost curve in the long run is flatter than the average total cost curve in the short run
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true
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the efficient scale for a firm is the quantity of output that minimizes marginal cost
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false
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in the long run, as a firm expands its production facilities, it generally first experiences diseconomies of scale, then constant returns to scale, and finally economies of scale
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false
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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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implicit costs
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Nicole owns a small pottery factory. She can make 1,000 pieces of pottery per year and sell them for €100 each. It costs Nicole €20,000 for the raw materials to produce the 1,000 pieces of pottery. She has invested €100,000 in her factory and equipment: €50,000 from her savings and €50,000 borrowed at 10 per cent. (Assume that she could have loaned her money out at 10 per cent, too.) Nicole can work at a competing pottery factory for €40,000 per year. The accounting profit at Nicole's pottery factory is
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€75,000.
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Nicole owns a small pottery factory. She can make 1,000 pieces of pottery per year and sell them for €100 each. It costs Nicole €20,000 for the raw materials to produce the 1,000 pieces of pottery. She has invested €100,000 in her factory and equipment: €50,000 from her savings and €50,000 borrowed at 10 percent (assume that she could have loaned her money out at 10 percent, too). Nicole can work at a competing pottery factory for €40,000 per year. The economic profit at Nicole's pottery factory is
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€30,000.
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if there are implicit costs of production
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accounting profit will exceed 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 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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when marginal costs are below average total costs,
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average total costs are falling
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if marginal costs equal 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 marginal product, the corresponding marginal-cost curve will
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be 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
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all costs are variable in the long run