Hands off leadership

Firm X's total fixed costs are $1,000. Its total variable costs of producing 100 units are $2,000, and its total variable costs of producing 200 units are $4,000. Which of the following will happen to firm X's average costs as it increases output from 100 to 200 units?

a. Average costs increase. b. Average costs decrease. c. Average costs remain constant. d. Average costs increase slightly.

As a shoe factory adds more workers, shoe production grows, reaches a maximum, and then shrinks

In a diagram that has the number of workers on the horizontal axis and the number of shoes on the vertical axis, the relationship between the number of workers and the number of shoes starts as ________ and then, after the maximum point, is ________. A) negative; positive B) positive; linear C) positive; negative D) positive; nonexistent E) linear; negative