Scenario 12-16 A Certain Firm Produces and Sells Staplers.Last Year,it Produced 7,000

question 63

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Scenario 12-16
A certain firm produces and sells staplers.Last year,it produced 7,000 staplers and sold each stapler for $6.In producing the 7,000 staplers,it incurred variable costs of $28,000 and a total cost of $45,000.
-Refer to Scenario 12-16.Suppose the owner of the business had an offer to work for another firm for $25,000.The firm's economic profit for the year was

• A) $-28,000.
• B) $-25,000
• C) $-3,000.
• D) $17,000.

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Competitive Advantage

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