Average fixed costs in the short-run:
a. increase as the quantity produced increases.
b. decrease as the quantity produced increases.
c. first decrease, then increase eventually as the quantity produced increases.
d. first increase, then decrease eventually as the quantity produced increases.
Ans: b. decrease as the quantity produced increases.
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