Firms Try to Minimize Costs and Maximize Profits and in the Process

question 61

Multiple Choice

Firms try to minimize costs and maximize profits and in the process produce:

• A)the goods and services that buyers want at the highest possible cost.
• B)the goods and services that buyers want at the least possible cost.
• C)the maximum amount of goods or services that they are capable of producing.
• D)economically inefficient amounts of goods or services.
• E)only those goods and services which command a very high price in the market.

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