Question : 31) Which of the following typically considered a fixed cost : 1245255

 

 

31) Which of the following is typically considered a fixed cost by academic book publishers but a variable cost by companies that print books?

A) postage and supplies

B) travel

C) rent

D) wages and salaries

 

32) Which of the following statements is false?

A) An implicit cost is a nonmonetary opportunity cost.

B) Economic costs include both accounting costs and implicit costs.

C) An explicit cost is a cost that involves spending money.

D) Economists consider all costs to be implicit costs.

33) An explicit cost is defined as

A) a cost that does not change as output changes.

B) a nonmonetary opportunity cost.

C) a cost that involves spending money.

D) a nonmonetary accounting cost.

 

34) Which of the following statements is true?

A) An explicit cost is an actual cost; an implicit cost is a theoretical cost.

B) Economic costs include both explicit costs and implicit costs.

C) An explicit cost is more important, dollar for dollar, than an implicit cost.

D) Explicit costs are accounting costs, not economic costs; implicit costs are economic costs, not accounting costs.

 

35) Jennifer Borts moves her office from the premises she rents at a local mall to her home. As a result of this move

A) Jennifer’s explicit costs fall and her implicit costs rise.

B) Jennifer’s total costs fall.

C) Jennifer’s implicit costs fall.

D) Jennifer’s opportunity costs fall.

 

36) The relationship between the inputs employed by a firm and the maximum output that it can produce with those inputs is the firm’s

A) production function.

B) supply curve, or supply schedule.

C) marginal product of labor.

D) average product of labor.

37) The Santa Fe Spark Plug Company supplies spark plugs to automotive parts dealers. An increase in the demand for its product led Santa Fe to hire 150 new workers. Santa Fe also plans to expand the capacity of its plant but this project will take 2 years to complete. Which of the following statements is true?

A) The wages and benefits paid to the new workers are implicit costs.

B) The long run for Santa Fe is longer than 1 year.

C) The short run for Santa Fe is 1 year.

D) In the short run Santa Fe’s variable costs increase but its fixed costs decrease.

 

38) Which of the following statements is true?

A) Opportunity cost = explicit cost – implicit cost.

B) Total cost = fixed cost + implicit cost.

C) Total cost = fixed cost + variable cost.

D) Variable cost = wages + salaries + benefits.

 

39) The rules of accounting generally require that ________ costs be used for purposes of keeping a company’s financial records and for paying taxes. These costs are sometimes called ________ costs.

A) economic; legal

B) real; explicit

C) total; economic

D) explicit; accounting

 

40) Stan owns a software design business. He does not have time to expand his office space or redesign the layout of his office. He can increase the amount of work he does by working more hours, asking his current employees to work more hours, or hiring more employees. The relationship between Stan’s inputs and the maximum output his firm can produce is called his

A) long-run production function.

B) production possibilities frontier.

C) short-run production function.

D) cost function.

 

 

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