If a profit-seeking competitive firm is producing its profit-maximizing output and its total fixed costs fall by 25 percent, the firm should:

A. use more labor and less capital to produce a larger output.
B. not change its output.
C. reduce its output.
D. increase its output.

Answer: B

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