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Fixed costs
- remain unchanged
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graph
- straight line
- quantity axis
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average fixed cost
- decreases as volume of production increases
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average variable costs
- increase when MC is bigger then AFC
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Average cost
-
decrease
- MC is less then previous average cost
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increase
- MC is greater then previous average cost
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graph
- cuts average cost at lowest point
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Marginal Cost
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decrease
- if firm is experiencing increasing marginal returns
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increase
- diminishing marginal returns sets in