It costs a meat-processing company $50,000 to produce 5,000 pounds of steak. The company's cost will be $50,009 if it produces an additional pound of steak. If the company produces 5,001 pounds of steak then
a. its average cost is greater than its marginal cost.
b. its average cost and its marginal cost are equal.
c. its average cost is less than its marginal cost.
d. there is insufficient information to compute average and marginal costs.
a
You might also like to view...
Kaitlyn and Larissa have formed a dog bathing and grooming business business. The number of dogs they can bathe or groom in any given day is depicted in Table 2.1. The opportunity cost of grooming the first dog in a day is bathing ________ dog(s)
A) 1 B) 2 C) 24 D) 25
If the four-firm concentration ratio is a very small number, then
A) there is a high degree of competition in the market. B) there is no competition in the market. C) the market must be dominated by a few firms. D) the market is not perfectly competitive.
Currently, a three-month Treasury bill has a yield of 5% while the yield on a ten-year Treasury bond is 4.7%. What is the risk premium of the typical A-rated ten-year corporate bond with a yield of 5.5%?
A) 0.5% B) 0.8% C) 5.5% D) 1.17%
The South's post-Civil War (1861–1865) backwardness was due to all of the following, according to Hughes and Cain (2011), except
(a) Extensive wartime destruction of life and wealth (b) The fiscal disaster of the Confederacy, whereby nine-tenths of the state banks of the South vanished (c) The price of cotton, which did not fall, but did fail to increase as it had prior to the Civil War (1861–1865), thus turning cotton into a less profitable crop (d) The sharecropping system's failure to provide incentives for innovation in agriculture