Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 21

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
Scenario: Betty's Cookie Shop
Betty runs a cookie shop where she sells cookies for $1 each. She employs five people, each of whom worked a total of 500 hours last year; she paid them $10 per hour. Her costs of equipment and raw materials add up to $75,000. Her business ability is legendary, and other companies have offered to pay Betty $100,000 to come to work for them. She also knows she could sell her cookie shop for $150,000. The bank in town pays an annual interest rate of 3% on all funds deposited with it.
-(Scenario: Betty's Cookie Shop) Betty is trying to decide at what point she should stop selling cookies, and she knows she cannot change the price of a cookie. She should stop selling cookies if:

• A) her economic profit is positive.
• B) her explicit and implicit costs are less than her revenues.
• C) her implicit costs are greater than her accounting profits.
• D) her economic profit is equal to her accounting profit.

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