Laura Is a Manager for HP

question 287

Multiple Choice

Laura is a manager for HP. When Laura must decide whether to produce a few additional printers, she is choosing at the margin when she compares

• A) the total revenue from sales of printers to the total cost of producing all the printers.
• B) the extra revenue from selling a few additional printers to the extra costs of producing the printers.
• C) the extra revenue from selling a few additional printers to the average cost of producing the additional printers.
• D) HP's printers to printers from competing companies, such as Lexmark.

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