Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.5

7.5 — practice question

The table illustrates how a firm’s total cost varies as additional workers are hired. What effect would employing a third worker have on the firm’s average costs and marginal costs?

  • Aaverage costs: decrease; marginal costs: decrease
  • Baverage costs: decrease; marginal costs: increase
  • Caverage costs: increase; marginal costs: decrease
  • Daverage costs: increase; marginal costs: increase

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