1. A firm’s short-run supply curve shows the relationship between on the horizontal axis and on the vertical axis.
2. The part of a firm’s marginal cost curve that is above the minimum of the average variable cost curve is also the firm’scurve.
3. A perfectly competitive industry has 100 identical firms. At a price of $8, the typical firm supplies sevenunits of output, so the market quantity supplied is units of output.
4.Figure 24.6 on page 550 shows a long-run equilibrium because (1) the quantityequals the quantity ; (2) the typical firm maximizes by picking the quantity at which
equals ; (3) each firm makeseconomic profit because equals .
5. A firm making zero economic profit stays in the market because total revenue is high enough to cover all the firm’s costs, including the opportunity costs of the entrepreneur’s and .
6. As the price of shipping services increases, the quantity suppliedas firms deploy ships and as each ship travels . (Related to Application 4 on page 551.)
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