An engineer has informed the city manager that the marginal cost of an additional car crossing the city bridge is zero? If you were required to draw this cost function on a graph what would it look like? What is the slope of this graph?

What will be an ideal response?


The graphs would be a horizontal line at a cost of $0 . The slope of the line is also zero since the cost of additional cars traveling on it don't change.

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What will be an ideal response?

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