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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A allows fixed cost to become variable.
B replaces unskilled labor with automated machinery.
C retrains Joe the welder as a painter and Pat the painter as a welder.
D buys extra machines for its workers to use.
Question #2
A costs fall as the size of the product is increased.
B the government feels responsible for breaking up the firm.
C costs per unit decline as output expands.
D firms always make handsome profits.
Question #3
A mortgage on the building
B electricity
C worker bonuses
D steel to produce refrigerators
Question #4
A difference between total cost and total expenditure.
B change in total cost resulting from the production of one more unit of output.
C change in total cost resulting from the purchase of one more unit of the variable input.
D difference between total fixed cost and total variable cost.
Question #5
A increasing costs per unit of output.
B constant returns to scale.
C increasing returns to scale.
D decreasing returns to scale.
Question #6
A rising total product.
B falling fixed costs.
C spreading fixed costs over larger outputs and increasing returns to the variable inputs.
D declining administrative costs as output increases.
Question #7
A airlines are experiencing decreasing returns to scale.
B the larger airlines are not profitable.
C there are increasing returns to scale in the airline industry.
D the airline industry has constant returns to scale.
Question #8
A total revenue product.
B output.
C total consumer’s surplus.
D marginal physical product times output.
Question #9
A increases as output increases.
B remains constant even if the firm shuts down.
C is always zero.
D declines as output increases.
Question #10
A jet fuel
B insurance
C rent of airport space
D property taxes
Question #11
A is a composite of short-run AC curves.
B shows the lowest possible short-run AC corresponding to each output level.
C All of these are correct.
D depends on the firm’s planning horizon.
Question #12
A there is no economic reason to break up large firms that may have some control over the market.
B large firms have a concentration of economic power.
C large firms are less-efficient producers.
D many smaller firms would be less-efficient producers.
Question #13
A it must have increasing returns to each input at low levels of production and decreasing returns to each input at high levels of production.
B the firm can maximize its output by operating at the point of minimum long-run average cost.
C it must have increasing returns to scale at low levels of production and decreasing returns to scale at high levels of production.
D its fixed cost rises as output rises.
Question #14
A buy less of that input and more of the other input.
B reduce its output.
C change its input mix so that the marginal physical product of the input whose price has risen falls and the marginal physical product of the other input rises.
D buy more of the higher priced input and less of the lower priced input.
Question #15
A producer should expand the use of that input.
B producer should reduce the use of that input.
C price of the input will automatically rise in a free market.
D marginal physical product of that input must be below its average physical product.
Question #16
A at what point to stop adding inputs to the production process.
B how much the last input added to the total amount of revenue.
C how much the last input added to the total amount of production.
D how much profit will be made at each level of production.
Question #17
A input quantity and output price.
B input quantity and input price.
C output quantity and output price.
D output quantity and input price.
Question #18
A decreasing returns to scale.
B diminishing returns to labor.
C decreasing short-run average variable cost.
D increasing long-run average cost.