A bus is mostly filled with passengers and ready to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At the last minute, a person comes running up to the bus and takes a seat. The change in the bus company's total cost as a result of transporting one more passenger on this trip is called:
a. marginal cost.
b. average total cost.
c. variable cost.
d. fixed cost.
e. opportunity cost.
a
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One reason the supply and demand model might not be appropriate to the health-care industry?
A) Consumers do not have full information. B) Providers do not know the demand for health-care services. C) Consumers do not know how to value their own health. D) The costs of finding a doctor are too low.
Clipper ships
a. allowed for profitable shipping on both short and long journeys. b. dominated Atlantic trade by 1850. c. were among the first ships to have iron hulls. d. earned huge profits transporting passengers and cargo during the gold rushes to California and Australia. e. All of the above.
A basic problem with the infant-industry argument is that:
A. most industries need protection when they are mature, not when they are first established. B. the amount of the tariff is unlikely to have much impact on the success of an infant industry. C. political pressure will likely prevent the withdrawal of the tariff when the industry matures. D. domestic consumers will continue to buy the foreign products anyway, regardless of the tariff.
Consider the labor market depicted in the above figure. The competitive equilibrium would be for ________ hours of employment
A) 200 B) 400 C) 600 D) None of the above answers is correct.