The Change in a Firm's Total Cost from Producing One

question 213

Multiple Choice

The change in a firm's total cost from producing one more unit of a good or service is

• A)the result of economies of scale.
• B)the definition of marginal product
• C)the definition of marginal cost.
• D)impossible to observe in large firms with many manufacturing plants.

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