Measuring Production
Short Run
Long Run
Formulas
Graphs
100

This is the total quantity of output produced by a certain amount of inputs.

What is Total Product?

100

This is the average per-unit fixed cost of production for a given quantity of output.

What is Average Fixed Cost?

100

Which input(s) is/are present in long run production?

What is variable input?

100

Formula of Average Product (AP)

What is Total Product/Labor (TP/L)?

100

When MP is above AP, AP is ______.

What is rising?

200

The additional output produced by one more unit of variable input is ________ _______.

What is Marginal Product?

200

The two inputs in Short Run production are fixed input and _____ _____.

What is variable input?

200

This is the term for when the long run Average Total Cost decreases as output increases.

What is Economies of Scale?

200

Formula of Average Variable Cost (AVC)?

What is Variable Cost/Quantity (VC/Q)?

200

When MP is positive but decreasing, TP is increasing at a __________ rate.

What is decreasing?

300

This is the average quantity of output produced by one unite of a variable input.

What is Average Product?

300

This is the cost that must be paid at all levels of output.

What is Fixed Cost?

300

The difference between increasing and decreasing returns to scale is.

What is the rate they increase?

300

Formula of Average Fixed Cost (AFC).

What is Fixed Cost/Quantity (FC/Q)?

300

When MP is negative, TP is __________.

What is decreasing?

400

When Marginal Product is above Average Product, Average Product is ______.

What is rising?

400

The Average Fixed Cost + the Average Variable Cost equals.

What is Average Total Cost?
400

The letter that most resembles a long run average total graph.

What is u?

400

Formula of Marginal Product (MP).

What is Change in Total Product/Change in Labor?

400

The intersection of MP and AP is the _______ of AP.

What is maximum?

500

This product represents the slope of Total Product on a graph.

What is Marginal Product?

500

This is why Marginal Cost eventually rises after decreasing initially.

What is diminishing returns?

500

This helps determine the number of firms in a market.

What is minimum efficient scale?

500

Formula of Marginal Cost (MC).

What is Change in Total Cost/Change in Quantity?

500

When MP = 0, TP is at ___.

What is max?