Concept Introduction:
Here,
- AFC is the average fixed cost.
- AVC is the
average variable cost . - ATC is the average total cost.
Marginal Cost (MC): It refers to the rate by which the total cost of the produced good changes when the production increases by a single unit. As the fixed cost is constant irrespective of production so the marginal cost depends on the variable cost only in the short run. Marginal cost is calculated as follows:
Here,
- is the marginal cost.
- is the change in total cost
- is the change in quantity.
Average: In a particular set of data or series, the central value is calculated which can represent the whole data, this value is neither the maximum value nor the minimum value whereas, this value will lie somewhere between the maximum and the minimum value.
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