A. is derived from the average fixed costs
B. Converges with the average cost as output increases
C. Equals the total costs divided by the output
D. Equals revenue minus profits
Related Mcqs:
- The short run marginal cost curve cuts the short run total cost curve and short run average variable cost curve ?
A. At their lowest points
B. When they are declining
C. When they are increasing
D. When marginal revenue is zero - In the short run, the competitive firm’s supply curve is the portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average variable cost curve?
A. Upward-sloping portion of the average total cost curve
B. upward-sloping portion of the average variable cost curve
C. portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average total cost curve.
D. entire marginal cost curve.
E. portion of the marginal-cost curve that lies above the average variable cost curve - When average cost is falling marginal cost is ________ and when average cost is rising marginal cost is?
A. greater than average cost, greater than average cost
B. less than average cost, greater than average cost
C. less than average cost, less than average cost
D. greater than average cost, less than average cost - Suppose that the supply curve of tin is highly inelastic. If the demand curve of tin decrease and increase cyclically along the supply curve of tin, then in this market the size of the quantity fluctuation will bathe size of the price fluctuations ?
A. relatively greater than
B. relatively less than
C. the same as
D. Any of the above - Suppose that the demand curve for tin is highly inelastic. If the supply curve of tin decrease and increase cyclically along the demand curve for tin then in this market the size of the price fluctuation will be __________ the size of the quantity fluctuations?
A. relatively greater then
B. relatively less than
C. the same as
D. any of the above - If the price is less than the average costs but higher than the average variable costs ?
A. The firm is making a loss and will shutdown in the short term
B. The firm is making a profile
C. The firm is making a loss but will continue to produce in the short term
D. The firm is making a loss and is making a negative contribution to fixed costs - Suppose Handel’s Ice Cream experiences economies of scale up to a certain point and diseconomies of scale beyond that point. Its long-run average cost curve is most likely to be ?
A. downward sloping to the right
B. U-shaped
C. Horizontal
D. upward sloping to the right - If a long run average cost curve is falling form left to right this is an example of ?
A. increasing returns to scale
B. decreasing returns to scale
C. constant returns to scale
D. the minimum efficient scale - A case when internal economies of scale bring about a continuously falling average cost curve that makes having more than one firm in an industry inefficient is illustrative of ?
A. a natural monopoly
B. an LDC’s limit of one firm to an industry
C. an individual firm facing a horizontal (perfectly elastic) demand curve in LDCs
D. The existence of oligopoly - The formula for average variable cost (AVC) is ?
A. DTVC/Dq
B. q/TVC
C. Dq/DTVC
D. TVC/q
