As a shoe company produces more shoes the average total cost of each shoe produced increases. This is because there are:. a. economies of scale.
b. total fixed costs are decreasing as more shoes are produced.
c. average variable cost is decreasing as more shoes are produced.
d. none of the above.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Janis owns and operates a store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. in order to prevent the value of money in her cash register from falling too quickly, janis sends an employee to the bank four times per day to make deposits in a interest-bearing account that protects the store's revenues from the effects of inflation. this is an example of the (menu costs/ unit of account costs/ shoesleather costs) of inflation. pick one

Now, use your previously-computed value as an approximation for sigma, and compute how many ears of the experimental corn the researcher needs in the study. don't forget, the margin of error and confidence level have already been given to you in a previous problem.