A firm increases both its plant and its labor force by the same percentage and its average total costs remain unchanged. Is the firm experiencing increasing returns to scale, constant returns to scale, or decreasing returns to scale?

What will be an ideal response?


The firm is experiencing constant returns to scale.

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Which of the following is a similarity between a bank loan and a bond? a. Only large business houses can raise funds from these two methods

b. Only small business houses can raise funds from these two methods. c. Funds raised from both methods have a fixed tenure for repayment. d. Interest is required to be paid on the funds raised from both bonds and bank loans.

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Suppose that, when producing 10 units of output, a firm's AVC is $22, its AFC is $5, and its MC is $30. This firm's

A. ATC is $35.
B. ATC is $57.
C. total cost is $270.
D. total cost is $30.

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