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What does the market demand curve represent?

  • The horizontal sum of individual demand curves
  • The inability to show how quantity demanded changes in response to a change in price
  • The vertical sum of individual demand curves (correct)
  • The inability to show changes in demand for a good
  • With fixed costs of $400, a firm has average total costs of $3 and average variable costs of $2.50. What is its output?

  • 200 units
  • 800 units (correct)
  • 1,600 units
  • 400 units
  • If the short-run average variable costs of production for a firm are rising, what does this indicate?

  • Average variable costs are below average fixed costs
  • Average total costs are at a maximum
  • Average fixed costs are constant
  • Marginal costs are above average variable costs (correct)
  • At the point of consumer equilibrium, when does the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) equal the price ratio?

    <p>The slope of the indifference curve</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the market demand curve fail to show?

    <p>The inability to show changes in demand for a good</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What leads to an increase in the quantity supplied but not an increase in supply?

    <p>An increase in the price of another product that the suppliers can produce</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What factor would lead to an increase in supply?

    <p>An advance in the technology used to produce the good</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What would cause a leftward shift of the supply curve?

    <p>An increase in the cost of production</p> Signup and view all the answers

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