The Figure Given Below Shows the Revenue and Cost Curves

question 106

Multiple Choice

The figure given below shows the revenue and cost curves of a perfectly competitive firm.Figure 10.2
MC: Marginal cost curve
MR: Marginal revenue curve
ATC: Average-total-cost curve
AVC: Average-variable-cost curve
-In the short run, a firm continues to produce only if it can cover the:

• A)fixed costs.
• B)sunk costs.
• C)explicit costs.
• D)variable costs.
• E)implicit costs.

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Definitions:

Total Revenues

The total amount of money generated by a firm from its sales activities before any expenses are subtracted.

Elastic

A description of a variable's sensitivity to change in another variable, often used in economics to describe how demand or supply responds to changes in price.

Price-elasticity Coefficient

A measure that calculates how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in its price, quantitatively.

Revenues

The total income generated by a company from its business operations, such as sales of goods or services, before any costs or expenses are deducted.