If the Minimum Points of All the Possible Short-Run Average

question 62

Multiple Choice

If the minimum points of all the possible short-run average total cost curves become successively lower as quantity of output increases, then:

• A) the firm should try to produce less output.
• B) total fixed costs are constant along the LRAC curve.
• C) there are economies of scale.
• D) when output is doubled, total costs are doubled.

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Definitions:

Frequency Distribution

A summary of data that shows the number of occurrences of each value or category of a variable.

Cumulative Frequency

The sum of a given frequency and all frequencies so far in a frequency distribution.

Cumulative Relative Frequency

A statistical measure showing the sum of the relative frequency of all values less than or equal to a specific value, often used to understand the distribution of data points within a dataset.

Percent Frequency Distribution

A tabular summary of data showing the percentage of observations in each of several nonoverlapping classes.