At the End of 2014, Diatomic Company Implemented a New

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Multiple Choice

At the end of 2014, Diatomic Company implemented a new labor process and redesigned its product with the expectation that input usage efficiency would increase. Now, at the end of 2015, the president of the company wants an assessment of the changes on the company's productivity. The data needed for the assessment are as follows: By how much did profit change as a result of profitability changes in power?

• A) $27,000 decrease
• B) $10,125 decrease
• C) $3,375 increase
• D) $3,375 decrease

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Definitions:

Excise Tax

An indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good or service, often included in the price of products like gasoline, alcohol, and tobacco.

Marginal Cost (MC) Curves

Graphs showing the cost of producing one additional unit of a good, illustrating how the cost varies with the level of output.

Diminishing Returns

A rule in economics that holds that after reaching a certain level, further investments in a specific sector will not yield higher returns if all other conditions stay the same.

Law of Demand

The economic principle stating that as the price of a good increases, demand for that good will decrease, and vice versa.