Exam 7: Production Costs

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A firm estimates that when output is 10, its total costs are $900. It also finds that when output is 11, its total costs are $920. The marginal cost of the eleventh unit of output is:

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Which of the following is an implicit cost of going to college?

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Economists say that a firm has a normal profit when:

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Which statement about the total variable cost curve is true?

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The difference between a firm's total revenues and total costs when all explicit and implicit costs are included is the firm's:

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The vertical distance between the average total cost curve and the average variable cost curve at any given output level equals average fixed cost at that particular output level.

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Exhibit 7-8 Costs schedules for producing pizza Pizzas Fixed Cost Variable Cost Total Cost Marginal Cost 0 \ \ \ \ 1 5 2 13 3 10 4 100 140 5 20 6 85 7 215 -By filling in the blanks in Exhibit 7-8, the total cost of producing 5 pizzas is shown to be equal to:

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Exhibit 7-12 Cost schedule for producing pizza Pizzas Fixed Cost Variable Cost Total Cost 0 \ \ \ 1 48 2 17 3 27 4 78 5 40 6 64 7 80 -By filling in the blanks in Exhibit 7-12, the AFC of 4 pizzas is shown to be equal to:

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Assume both the marginal cost and the average variable cost curves are U-shaped. At the minimum point on the AVC curve, marginal cost must be:

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A bus is mostly filled with passengers and ready to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At the last minute, a person comes running up to the bus and takes a seat. The change in the bus company's total cost as a result of transporting one more passenger on this trip is called:

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Exhibit 7-11 Short-run cost curves schedule for pizzeria's hourly production Total Product Total Variable Cost Total Cost 0 pizzas \ 0 \ 20 10 50 70 20 80 100 30 130 150 40 230 250 -In Exhibit 7-11, what is the marginal cost of increasing production from 10 to 20 pizzas per hour?

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Which of the following is not a source of economies of scale?

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In order for the law of diminishing returns to be present, we must have:

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Long-run economies of scale exist when the long-run average cost curve:

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Normal profit is a term for:

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Exhibit 7-4 A marginal product curve Exhibit 7-4 A marginal product curve   -As shown in Exhibit 7-4, which of the following conclusions can you draw about the firm's total output curve? -As shown in Exhibit 7-4, which of the following conclusions can you draw about the firm's total output curve?

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Economic profit is:

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Each short-run average total cost curve is tangent at its lowest point to the long-run average cost curve.

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Exhibit 7-8 Costs schedules for producing pizza Pizzas Fixed Cost Variable Cost Total Cost Marginal Cost 0 \ \ \ \ 1 5 2 13 3 10 4 100 140 5 20 6 85 7 215 -By filling in the blanks in Exhibit 7-8, the total cost of producing zero pizzas is shown to be equal to:

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If average fixed costs equal $60 and average total costs equal $120 when output is 100, the total variable cost must be:

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