Suppose McDonald's puts up five new stores in San Francisco using the exact same floor plan, capital equipment and number of workers, then the long run average cost curve of McDonald's would be ________ and the company experiences ________.

A. horizontal; constant returns to scale
B. horizontal; economies of scale
C. upward sloping; economies of scale
D. horizontal; diseconomies of scale


Answer: A

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