Sweetie Nick has dreamt of owning a candy store his whole life. Unfortunately, after a few wrong turns, Sweetie Nick finds himself stuck in a job he hates, earning a nice salary of \$100,000, but he is completely dead inside. One day, Sweetie Nick is fed up and decides to quit his job and open a candy store. He takes his \$300,000 savings, which were earning 5% interest, and buys a property downtown. In his first year, Sweetie Nick sells \$220,000 worth of candy that he purchased for \$80,000. He also paid utilities of \$2,000 and hired a cashier that earned \$16,000 throughout the year. What is Sweetie Nick's accounting profit and economic profit?
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- 1. Introduction to Macroeconomics2h 13m
- 2. Introductory Economic Models1h 15m
- Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency19m
- PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency12m
- PPF - Outward Shifts9m
- PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage14m
- PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade14m
- PPF - The Price of the Trade4m
- 3. Supply and Demand3h 28m
- Introduction to Supply and Demand5m
- The Basics of Demand7m
- Individual Demand and Market Demand3m
- Shifting Demand39m
- The Basics of Supply3m
- Individual Supply and Market Supply6m
- Shifting Supply29m
- Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts9m
- Supply and Demand Together: Equilibrium, Shortage, and Surplus6m
- Supply and Demand Together: One-sided Shifts20m
- Supply and Demand Together: Both Shift34m
- Supply and Demand: Quantitative Analysis41m
- 4. Elasticity2h 36m
- Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand19m
- Elasticity and the Midpoint Method21m
- Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph12m
- Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand7m
- Total Revenue Test14m
- Total Revenue Along a Linear Demand Curve15m
- Income Elasticity of Demand24m
- Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand12m
- Price Elasticity of Supply13m
- Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph4m
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- Economic Surplus and Efficiency19m
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- Characteristics of Perfect Competition6m
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- Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph21m
- Short Run Shutdown Decision35m
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- Individual Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run6m
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- Perfect Competition and Efficiency15m
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10. The Costs of Production
Revenue, Cost, and Profit
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Which of the following best describes how total cost is calculated in microeconomics?
A
Total cost equals fixed cost plus variable cost.
B
Total cost equals total revenue minus profit.
C
Total cost equals price multiplied by quantity.
D
Total cost equals marginal cost times quantity.
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Understand the components of total cost in microeconomics: total cost (TC) is the sum of fixed costs (FC) and variable costs (VC). Fixed costs are expenses that do not change with the level of output, while variable costs vary with production.
Recall the formula for total cost: \(\text{TC} = \text{FC} + \text{VC}\), which means total cost is calculated by adding fixed costs and variable costs together.
Evaluate the other options by their definitions: total revenue minus profit gives total cost, but this is a rearrangement of the profit equation rather than a direct calculation of total cost; price multiplied by quantity gives total revenue, not total cost; marginal cost times quantity does not equal total cost because marginal cost is the cost of producing one additional unit, not the average cost per unit.
Confirm that the best description of total cost calculation is the sum of fixed and variable costs, as this directly reflects the total expenses incurred in production.
Summarize that in microeconomics, total cost is most accurately and commonly calculated as \(\text{TC} = \text{FC} + \text{VC}\).
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