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Economic profit is greater than or equal to accounting profit.
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(f) Accounting profit takes into consideration implicit cost (all things the firm is having to pay for like resources used) while economic doesn't take them into consideration.
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Price elasticity of demand along a linear, downward-sloping demand curve increases as price falls.
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(f) Elasticity of demand decrease as price decreases. Since people are less likely to look for substitutes when the price is lower than expected.
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If the equilibrium price of an airline ticket is $400 and the government imposes a price floor of $500 on airline tickets, then fewer airline tickets will be sold than at the market equilibrium.
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(t) When the floor price is above the equilibrium, then there will be a decrease in quantity demand.
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For a firm operating in a perfectly competitive industry, marginal revenue and average revenue are equal.
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(f) Total revenue divided by each unit doesn't equate to marginal revenue (how much make for one product, opportunity cost changes (law of diminishing returns))
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If something happens to alter the quantity supplied at any given price, then we move along the fixed supply curve to a new quantity supplied.
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(f) If alter quantity supplied at any given price, then would need to create new supply curve.
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When a tax is imposed on sellers, consumer surplus and producer surplus both decrease.
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(t) Since DWL impacts both parties.
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Individual demand curves are summed horizontally to obtain the market demand curve.
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(t) The demand curves will take into consideration all quantity added up so able sell in market overall at that price. (individual demand curves all added together)
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A price ceiling is a legal minimum on the price at which a good or service can be sold.
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(f) price ceiling is a maximum
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A dairy farmer must be able to calculate sunk costs in order to determine how much revenue the farm receives for the typical gallon of milk.
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(*) Typical cost is always above average variable cost. Average variable