If a firm is operating in the range of diseconomies of scale, and if it is currently at the minimum point of its short-run average total cost curve, explain what action it can take to reduce its costs, if it does not want to change the quantity of output that it is producing

It can reduce its fixed capital. This will move it to a new short-run average total cost curve that is closer to
(or tangent to) the envelope curve at the desired level of output.

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A) Reserves B) Commercial loans C) Demand deposits D) Deposits with the Federal Reserve

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