Allocative Efficiency Occurs

question 273

Multiple Choice

Allocative efficiency occurs

• A) anywhere inside or on the production possibilities frontier.
• B) when the total cost of production is minimized.
• C) at all points on the production possibilities frontier.
• D) at only one point on the production possibilities frontier.
• E) at the points where the production possibilities frontier crosses the horizontal or vertical axis.

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Gain on Sale

The profit realized from the sale of assets that exceeds the book value of those assets.

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