If the owners of a business are receiving total revenues just sufficient to cover all of their explicit and implicit costs, then they are:

A. earning a normal profit.
B. doing better than their next best alternative.
C. doing worse than their next best alternative.
D. earning an economic loss.


Answer: A

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