IT 1081C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Marginal Revenue, Average Cost, Demand Curve
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Types of revenue total revenue, average revenue and marginal revenue. Relationship between total revenue average and marginal revenue. Revenue is the money receipts from the sale of a product. It is the sum of all sale receipts or income of a firm. Example: 100 units of icecream are sold at the rate of 5 per unit. It refers to revenue per unit of output sold. If tr = 1000 and q = 100 ar = 1000/100 =10. It the increase in total revenue when one extra unit is sold. It is the change in total revenue on account of the sale of one more unit of output sold. Marginal revenue = total revenue n total revenue (n-1) The relationship between average revenue and marginal revenue. The relationship between average revenue and marginal revenue is. If average revenue is constant, average revenue = marginal revenue and both are represented by a horizontal straight line parallel to the x axis.