Relationship between the Short Run Average and Marginal Cost Curves
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Diminishing marginal returns implies:
Decreasing average fixed costs
Increasing marginal costs
Decreasing average variable costs
Decreasing marginal costs
The marginal, average, and total product curves encountered by the firm producing in the short run exhibit all of the following relationships except:
When the total product is rising, the average and marginal product may be either rising or falling.
When average product is at a maximum, marginal product equals average product, and total product is rising.
When marginal product is at a maximum, average product equals marginal product, and total product is rising.
When marginal product is negative, total product and average product are falling.
Which of the following relations about SAC is true?
SAC = AVC + AFC
SAC = TFC + TVC
SAC = ATC + AVC
SAC = TC/q
Which is the correct formula for SMC?
SMC=SAC/Δq
SMC=TC/q
SMC=ΔTC/Δq
SMC=SAC/q
Which of the following is true of the relationship between the marginal cost function and the average cost function?
If MC is less than ATC, then ATC is increasing.
If MC is greater than ATC, then ATC is falling.
The ATC curve intersects the MC curve at minimum MC.
The MC curve intersects the ATC curve at minimum ATC.
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