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The Taste Freeze Ice Cream Company is a perfectly competitive firm producing where MR = MC

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The Taste Freeze Ice Cream Company is a perfectly competitive firm producing where MR = MC. The current market price of an ice cream sandwich is $5.00. Taste Freeze sells 200 ice cream sandwiches. Its AVC is $4.00 and its AFC is $3.00.

What should Taste Freeze do?

A. Continue to produce because price exceeds AVC .

B. Shut down production so that AVC will decrease.

C. Increase down and produce zero sandwiches because the price is less than ATC.

D. Decrease production so that AFC will decrease.

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The correct answer is: A. Continue to produce because price exceeds AVC .

 

A firm will continue to produce in the short run if it is making enough revenue to cover its variable cost of production. That is; a firm will continue to produce in the short run if the average revenue (P) is greater than the average variable cost. That is, P>AVC. If the market price is less than the average variable cost (P<AVC), the firm should shut down temporarily to avoid incurring the variable costs.

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