If a profit-maximizing, competitive firm is producing a quantity at which marginal cost is between average variable cost and average total cost, it will O keep producing in the short run but exit the market in the long run. O shut down in the short run but return to production in the long run. O shut down in the short run and exit the market in the long run. O keep producing both in the short run and in the long run.

If a profit-maximizing, competitive firm is producing a quantity at which marginal cost is between average variable cost and average total cost, it will O keep producing in the short run but exit the market in the long run. O shut down in the short run but return to production in the long run. O shut down in the short run and exit the market in the long run. O keep producing both in the short run and in the long run.

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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