Suppose You Are the Owner of a Picture Frame Store

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Multiple Choice

Suppose you are the owner of a picture frame store and you wish to calculate how many pictures you must sell to cover your fixed and variable costs at a given price.Let's assume that the demand for your pictures is strong,so the average price customers are willing to pay for each picture frame is $120.Also,suppose your fixed costs (FC) total $32,000 (real estate taxes,interest on a bank loan,etc. ) and unit variable cost (UVC) for a picture frame is $40 (labor,glass,frame,and matting) .If your picture frame store sold 2,000 picture frames,what would your profit (or loss) be?

• A)a loss of $32,000
• B)$0-just able to break-even
• C)$32,000 profit
• D)$112,000 profit
• E)$128,000 profit

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Definitions:

Production Possibility Frontier

A curve depicting all maximum output possibilities for two or more goods given a set of inputs (resources), representing the trade-offs of producing one good over another.

Trade-Offs

Situations where having more of one thing invariably leads to having less of another due to limited resources or constraints.

Opportunity Costs

The value of the next best alternative that is foregone as a result of making a decision.

Resources

Various elements needed for the production of goods and services, often categorized into natural resources, human resources, and capital resources.