At a Mufflers-R-Us repair shop customers have the opportunity to wait in a room with chairs, a television, magazines, coffee and donuts. The economic way of thinking suggests the muffler shop is

A) selling mufflers below cost.
B) selling the additional goods and services below cost.
C) attempting to increase its total profit
D) engaging in unfair trade practice because it provides the goods and services free of charge.
E) almost certainly doing none of the above.

C

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Average costs_____ initially due to the presence of fixed costs and then _____due to increasing marginal costs

a. rise; rise b. rise; fall c. fall; rise d. fall; fall

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