Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.5

7.5 — practice question

A perfectly competitive firm is producing an output level at which average cost is below marginal cost. What will happen to these costs if output rises by one unit?

  • Aaverage cost falls; marginal cost falls
  • Baverage cost falls; marginal cost rises
  • Caverage cost rises; marginal cost falls
  • Daverage cost rises; marginal cost rises

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