Economics: Private and Public Choice (MindTap Course List)
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Author: James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, David A. Macpherson
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Chapter 21, Problem 3CQ
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The components of accounting statements of a firm.
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When a firm uses resources to produce a particular output, the implicit cost of alternative outputs that could have been produced represent the:
a) total accounting cost of using the resources.
b) opportunity cost of using the resources.
c) explicit cost of using the resources.
d) production cost of using the resources
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35) What is the firm’s efficient scale?
A. the quantity of output that minimizes average total cost
B. the quantity of output that minimizes average variable cost
C. the quantity of output that minimizes marginal cost
D. the quantity of output that minimizes average fixed cost
34) Marginal cost increases as the quantity of output increases. What property does this reflect?
A. diminishing total cost
B. increasing marginal product
C. increasing total cost
D. diminishing marginal product
What cost would an accounting statement reveal should current decisions be based on accounting cost.
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