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1.  Fixed costs can be easily identified by seeing what the total costs are when output is _______.  Separately, give an example of a variable cost.

1.  Fixed costs can be easily identified by seeing what the total costs are when output is _______.  Separately, give an example of a variable cost.

2.  The Lecture mentioned how a prior student in this course is paying her way through college by working as a waitress in a fancy Manhattan restaurant.  Suppose her boss told her one day, "We were profitable last month.  To increase our profits next month, I'm going to doubt our number of waitresses so that we can serve more people!"  But our former economics student told him that his plan would fail because there is _____________ returns of scale in the restaurant, because more waitresses would result in more wasted time talking to each other and waitresses getting in the way of each other.

2.  The Lecture mentioned how a prior student in this course is paying her way through college by working as a waitress in a fancy Manhattan restaurant.  Suppose her boss told her one day, "We were profitable last month.  To increase our profits next month, I'm going to double our number of waitresses so that we can serve more people!"  But our former economics student told him that his plan would fail because there is _____________ returns of scale in the restaurant, because more waitresses would result in more wasted time talking to each other and waitresses getting in the way of each other.

3.  Give an example of a "short run" cost for a firm, and give an example of a "long run" cost.  This can refer to any type of firm, from a grocery store to a baseball team to a homeschool.

3.  Give an example of a "short run" cost for a firm, and give an example of a "long run" cost.  This can refer to any type of firm, from a grocery store to a baseball team to a homeschool.