Suppose There Is a Technology to Produce Grendels Such That

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Multiple Choice

Suppose there is a technology to produce Grendels such that there are diseconomies of scale after the first unit is produced.There are both fixed (a physical plant called a lair) and variable (food that grows in lairs) costs of production.Which statement is true?

• A)b and d.
• B)Producing multiple units increases the average fixed cost.
• C)There will be no more than one firm in this industry.
• D)It is cheaper to make five Grendels by buying five lairs and producing one Grendel in each lair than it is to produce five Grendels in one lair.
• E)This is an impossible situation.

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