Match each cost idea to its meaning
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Explicit cost
- Right
- An actual payment made out
- Left
- Implicit cost
- Right
- Something given up, unpaid
- Left
- Economic profit
- Right
- Revenue less all costs
- Left
- Fixed cost
- Right
- Cost of the fixed inputs
- Left
- Diminishing
- Right
- Each extra unit adds less
- Instructions
- Tap a term on the left, then tap its meaning on the right.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Microeconomics for AP(R) Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 7 'Production, Costs and Industry Structure', sections 7.1-7.4_