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question 45

Multiple Choice

Refer to the following:
A manger of a firm with market power faces the marginal revenue product and average revenue product curves shown below. The firm incurs weekly fixed costs of $1,800. The firm employs a single variable input, labor, which costs $600 per worker each week.

-In profit-maximizing (or loss-minimizing) equilibrium, the firm's total variable costs are

• A) $12,000.
• B) $6,000.
• C) $600.
• D) $400.
• E) none of the above

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