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Define and explain each of the terms and provide an example of each. 

1) Law of Diminishing Returns

2) Total Cost

3) Marginal Cost

4) Economies of Scale

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Define and explain each of the terms and provide an example of each.

1) Total Cost

2) Marginal Cost

3) Economies of Scale

a) Explain why earning zero economic profit is not as bad as it sounds. b) What is the difference between the law of diminishing marginal returns and diseconomies of scale? Briefly explain what causes diseconomies of scale. c) Why is the Average Total Cost curve U-shaped? d) Explain why a firm might want to produce its good even after diminishing marginal returns have set in and marginal costs are rising. e) What economies of scale and economies of scope exist in (a) oil refining; (b) banking?

36) A firm encountering economies of scale over some range of output will have a:

a) rising long-run average cost curve.

b) falling long-run average cost curve.

c) constant long-run average cost curve.

d) rising, then falling, then rising long-run average cost curve.

37) When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has more than doubled, this is known as:

a) economies of scale.

b) constant returns to scale.

c) diseconomies of scale.

d) a violation of the law of diminishing returns.

38) The larger the diameter of a natural gas pipeline, the lower is the average total cost of transmitting 1,000 cubic feet of gas 1,000 miles. This is an example of:

a) economies of scale.

b) normative economies.

c) diminishing marginal returns.

d) an increasing marginal product of labor.

39) If all resources used in the production of a product are increased by 20 percent and output increases by 20 percent, then there must be:

a) economies of scale.

b) constant returns to scale.

c) diseconomies of scale.

d) increasing the average total costs.

40) Economies and diseconomies of scale explain why the:

a) short-run average fixed cost curve declines so long as output increases.

b) marginal cost curve must intersect the minimum point of the firm's average total cost curve.

c) long-run average total cost curve is typically U-shaped.

d) short-run average variable cost curve is U-shaped.

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