Marginal Social Cost

question 260

Multiple Choice

Marginal social cost

• A) is the additional cost to the consumer of consuming another unit of a good.
• B) is equal to price times quantity sold.
• C) decreases as more of a good is produced and, hence, is depicted by a downward sloping curve.
• D) is the opportunity cost of producing one more unit of a good and, hence, is the same as the supply curve.

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