If the Market Price Ever Drops Below a Firm's Average

question 54

Multiple Choice

If the market price ever drops below a firm's average variable costs at its profit-maximizing level of output the:

• A) firm should shut down immediately.
• B) loss-minimizing quantity of output is zero.
• C) firm is not earning enough revenue to cover the variable costs of production.
• D) All of these are true.

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