To Produce This Textbook, Suppose the Publisher Spent $165,000 for Typesetting

question 124

Multiple Choice

To produce this textbook, suppose the publisher spent $165,000 for typesetting and $8.50 per book for printing and binding. The total cost to produce and print n books can be written as Total cost to produce n textbooks = Fixed cost + Variable cost = If the average cost is the total cost divided by the number of books printed, find the average cost of producing 10,000 textbooks.

• A) $25
• B) $23
• C) $19
• D) $140
• E) $17

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