-This Month, the Local Widget Factory Produced 100 Widgets

question 137

Essay

-This month, the local widget factory produced 100 widgets. The total variable cost of production was $500 and the average total cost of production was $8.
a) What is the total cost?
b) What is the total fixed cost?
c) What is the average fixed cost?
d) What is the average variable cost?

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Definitions:

Allocative Efficiency

An economic state where resources are distributed in a way that maximizes the net benefit to society, ensuring that every good or service is produced up to the point where the last unit provides a benefit to consumers exactly equal to the cost of producing it.

Consumer Surplus

The disparity between the amount consumers are prepared to spend on a product or service and the amount they end up paying, indicating the advantage to consumers.

Allocative Efficiency

A state of the economy in which the distribution of resources among different uses is optimized, leading to an optimal level of consumer satisfaction.

Productive Efficiency

A situation in which an economy or entity is operating at maximum capacity, producing goods or services at the lowest possible cost.