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Chapter 7.5, Problem 1YTE
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Cause of falling the profit after years of growth.
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In 1796, Gottfried Christoph Hartel, a German music publisher, calculated the cost of printing
music using an engraved plate technology and used these estimated cost functions to make
production decisions. Hartel figured that the fixed cost of printing a musical page-the cost of
engraving the plates-was 900 pfennigs. The marginal cost of each additional copy of the page
was 5 pfennigs (Scherer, 2001).
Graph the average total cost, average variable cost, and marginal cost functions.
1.) Using the three-point curved line drawing tool, plot the average cost curve. Let the three
points correspond to quantities of 20, 60, and 180 units of output. Label this curve 'AC.'
2.) Using the line drawing tool, draw the marginal cost curve. Label this curve 'MC.'
3.) Using the line drawing tool, plot the average variable cost curve. Label this curve 'AVC.'
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