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If output more than doubles when all inputs are doubled, production is said to occur in conditions of:
 
A) increasing returns to scale.
B) imperfect competition.
C) intra-industry equilibrium.
D) constant returns to scale
E) decreasing returns to scale.

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1. Average costs curves initially fall

a. Due to declining average fixed costs

b. Due to rising average fixed costs

c. Due to rising fixed costs

d. Due to rising marginal costs

2. Marginal productivity is

a. The total output associated with total inputs

b. The total output associated with extra inputs

c. The extra output associated with total inputs

d. The extra output associated with extra inputs

3. If long-run average costs are constant with respect to output, you have

a. Increasing returns to scale

b. Decreasing returns to scale

c. Constant returns to scale

d. None of the above

4. If long-run average costs fall with output, you have

a. Increasing returns to scale

b. Decreasing returns to scale

c. Constant returns to scale

d. None of the above

The demand for a factor of production will always be greater in an industry with production technology that is constant returns to scale than if the industry is characterized by decreasing returns to scale. Is this statement correct?

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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