Suppose a firm experiences lower average costs whenever output increases in the long run. Then we would expect the firm to have:

A. a U-shaped long-run average cost curve.
B. an L-shaped long-run average cost curve.
C. a long-run average cost curve that always decreases.
D. a minimum efficient scale relatively close to the origin.


Answer: C

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