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Kerem makes candles. If he charges $25 for each candle, his total revenue will be

A) $1,250 if he sells 100 candles.
B) $625 if he sells 25 candles.
C) $25 regardless of how many candles he sells.
D) $2,500 if he sells 5 candles.

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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If long-run average total cost decreases as the quantity of output increases, the firm is experiencing

A) economies of scale.
B) diseconomies of scale.
C) coordination problems arising from the large size of the firm.
D) fixed costs greatly exceeding variable costs.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Fixed costs are those costs that remain fixed no matter how long the time horizon is.

Table 13-10 Teacher's Helper is a small company that has a subcontract to produce instructional materials for disabled children in public school districts. The owner rents several small rooms in an office building in the suburbs for $600 a month and has leased computer equipment that costs $480 a month. ​ ​ $\begin{array} { | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | } \hline \begin{array} { c } \text { Output } \\\text { (Instructional } \\\text { modules per } \\\text { month) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Fixed } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Variable } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Total } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Marginal } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Fixed Cost } \\\text { (Dollars } \\\text { per unit) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Variable } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars per } \\\text { unit) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Total Cost } \\\text { (Dollars } \\\text { per unit) }\end{array} \\\hline 0 & 1,080 & & & & & & \\\hline 1 & 1,080 & 400 & 1480 & 400 & & & \\\hline 2 & & & & 450 & & & 965\\\hline 3 & & 1,350 & 2,430 & & & & \\\hline 4 & & 1,900 & & & & 475& \\\hline 5 & & 2,500 & & & 216 & & \\\hline 6 & & & 4,280 & 700 & & & \\\hline 7 & & 4,100 & & & & & \\\hline 8 & & 5,400 & & &135 & & \\\hline 9 & & 7,300 & & & & & \\\hline 10 & & & 10,880 & & & 980 & \\\hline\end{array}$ ​ ​ ​ -Refer to Table 13-10. One month, Teacher's Helper produced 18 instructional modules. What was the average fixed cost for that month?

How can the average-fixed-cost curve be declining when fixed cost is constant?

The marginal-cost curve intersects the average-total-cost curve at the minimum point of the average-total-cost curve.

A firm produces 100 units of output at a total cost of $1,900. If fixed costs are $100,

Table 13-10 Teacher's Helper is a small company that has a subcontract to produce instructional materials for disabled children in public school districts. The owner rents several small rooms in an office building in the suburbs for $600 a month and has leased computer equipment that costs $480 a month. ​ ​ $\begin{array} { | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | } \hline \begin{array} { c } \text { Output } \\\text { (Instructional } \\\text { modules per } \\\text { month) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Fixed } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Variable } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Total } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Marginal } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Fixed Cost } \\\text { (Dollars } \\\text { per unit) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Variable } \\\text { Cost } \\\text { (Dollars per } \\\text { unit) }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Average } \\\text { Total Cost } \\\text { (Dollars } \\\text { per unit) }\end{array} \\\hline 0 & 1,080 & & & & & & \\\hline 1 & 1,080 & 400 & 1480 & 400 & & & \\\hline 2 & & & & 450 & & & 965\\\hline 3 & & 1,350 & 2,430 & & & & \\\hline 4 & & 1,900 & & & & 475& \\\hline 5 & & 2,500 & & & 216 & & \\\hline 6 & & & 4,280 & 700 & & & \\\hline 7 & & 4,100 & & & & & \\\hline 8 & & 5,400 & & &135 & & \\\hline 9 & & 7,300 & & & & & \\\hline 10 & & & 10,880 & & & 980 & \\\hline\end{array}$ ​ ​ ​ -Refer to Table 13-10. How many instructional modules are produced when marginal cost is $1,300?

Consider a small family wheat farm. List some examples of implicit costs of farming.

Describe how an accounting firm could experience diseconomies of scale.

Anna borrows $5,000 from a bank and withdraws $1,000 from her personal savings to start a coffee shop. The interest rate is 5 percent for both the bank loan and her personal savings. Her opportunity cost of capital is $250.

Describe how a study group of economics students could experience economies of scale as they study for an economics exam.

Can economic profit ever exceed accounting profit?

Jacqui decides to open her own business and earns $90,000 in accounting profit the first year. When deciding to open her own business, she withdrew $20,000 from her savings, which earned 3 percent interest. She also turned down three separate job offers with annual salaries of $30,000, $40,000, and $45,000. What is Jacqui's economic profit from running her own business?

Which of the following is an example of an implicit cost?

Scenario 13-3 Diamond is an organic brocolli farmer, but she also spends part of her day as a professional organizing consultant. As a consultant, Diamond helps people organize their houses. Due to the popularity of her home-organization services, Farmer Diamond has more clients requesting her services than she has time to help if she maintains her farming business. Farmer Diamond charges $45 an hour for her home-organization services. One spring day, Diamond spends 8 hours in her fields planting $130 worth of seeds on her farm. She expects that the seeds she planted will yield $300 worth of brocolli. -Refer to Scenario 13-3.Diamond's accounting profit from farming equals

Table 13-13 Listed in the table are the long-run total costs for three different firms. $\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | l | l | } \hline \text { uantity } & \mathbf { 2 } & \mathbf { 2 } & \mathbf { 3 } & \mathbf { 4 } & \mathbf { 5 } \\\hline \text { Firm A } & 100 & 100 & 100 & 100 & 100 \\\hline \text { Firm B } & 100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 \\\hline \text { Firm C } & 100 & 300 & 600 & 1,000 & 1,500 \\\hline\end{array}$ -Refer to Table 13-13. Firm C is experiencing economies of scale.

The shape of the marginal cost curve tells a producer something about the marginal product of her workers.

Adam Smith's example of the pin factory demonstrates that economies of scale result from specialization.

The cost of producing an additional unit of a good is not the same as the average cost of the good.