Fixed Costs

question 85

Multiple Choice

Fixed costs:

• A) change as a small quantity of output produced changes.
• B) are constant over the short-run regardless of the quantity of output produced.
• C) are defined as the change in total costs when one more unit of output is produced.
• D) are subtracted from sales to compute the contribution margin.
• E) can be ignored in scenario analysis since they are constant over the life of a project.

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