Sweetie Nick has dreamt of owning a candy store his whole life. Unfortunately, after a few wrong turns, Sweetie Nick finds himself stuck in a job he hates, earning a nice salary of \$100,000, but he is completely dead inside. One day, Sweetie Nick is fed up and decides to quit his job and open a candy store. He takes his \$300,000 savings, which were earning 5% interest, and buys a property downtown. In his first year, Sweetie Nick sells \$220,000 worth of candy that he purchased for \$80,000. He also paid utilities of \$2,000 and hired a cashier that earned \$16,000 throughout the year. What is Sweetie Nick's accounting profit and economic profit?
Table of contents
- 0. Basic Principles of Economics1h 5m
- Introduction to Economics3m
- People Are Rational2m
- People Respond to Incentives1m
- Scarcity and Choice2m
- Marginal Analysis9m
- Allocative Efficiency, Productive Efficiency, and Equality7m
- Positive and Normative Analysis7m
- Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics2m
- Factors of Production5m
- Circular Flow Diagram5m
- Graphing Review10m
- Percentage and Decimal Review4m
- Fractions Review2m
- 1. Reading and Understanding Graphs59m
- 2. Introductory Economic Models1h 10m
- 3. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand2h 26m
- Competitive Markets10m
- The Demand Curve13m
- Shifts in the Demand Curve24m
- Movement Along a Demand Curve5m
- The Supply Curve9m
- Shifts in the Supply Curve22m
- Movement Along a Supply Curve3m
- Market Equilibrium8m
- Using the Supply and Demand Curves to Find Equilibrium3m
- Effects of Surplus3m
- Effects of Shortage2m
- Supply and Demand: Quantitative Analysis40m
- 4. Elasticity2h 26m
- Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand19m
- Elasticity and the Midpoint Method20m
- Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph11m
- Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand6m
- Total Revenue Test13m
- Total Revenue Along a Linear Demand Curve14m
- Income Elasticity of Demand23m
- Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand11m
- Price Elasticity of Supply12m
- Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph3m
- Elasticity Summary9m
- 5. Consumer and Producer Surplus; Price Ceilings and Floors3h 45m
- Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay38m
- Producer Surplus and Willingness to Sell26m
- Economic Surplus and Efficiency18m
- Quantitative Analysis of Consumer and Producer Surplus at Equilibrium28m
- Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets38m
- Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Points20m
- Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Areas54m
- 6. Introduction to Taxes and Subsidies1h 46m
- 7. Externalities1h 12m
- 8. The Types of Goods1h 13m
- 9. International Trade1h 16m
- 10. The Costs of Production2h 35m
- 11. Perfect Competition2h 23m
- Introduction to the Four Market Models2m
- Characteristics of Perfect Competition6m
- Revenue in Perfect Competition14m
- Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph20m
- Short Run Shutdown Decision33m
- Long Run Entry and Exit Decision18m
- Individual Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run6m
- Market Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run9m
- Long Run Equilibrium12m
- Perfect Competition and Efficiency15m
- Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition5m
- 12. Monopoly2h 13m
- Characteristics of Monopoly21m
- Monopoly Revenue12m
- Monopoly Profit on the Graph16m
- Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss20m
- Price Discrimination22m
- Antitrust Laws and Government Regulation of Monopolies11m
- Mergers and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)17m
- Four Firm Concentration Ratio6m
- Four Market Model Summary: Monopoly4m
- 13. Monopolistic Competition1h 9m
- 14. Oligopoly1h 26m
- 15. Markets for the Factors of Production1h 26m
- 16. Income Inequality and Poverty35m
- 17. Asymmetric Information, Voting, and Public Choice39m
- 18. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics1h 16m
- Unions Coming soon
- Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance Coming soon
- Health Care Coming soon
- Uncertainty and Risk Coming soon
- Balance of Payments Coming soon
- Exchange Rates Coming soon
- Rent, Interest, and Profit (Brue) Coming soon
- Measuring National Output and Income (MACROECONOMICS)54m
- Unemployment and Inflation (MACROECONOMICS)1h 34m
- Labor Force and Unemployment10m
- Types of Unemployment12m
- Unemployment: Minimum Wage Laws and Efficiency Wages7m
- Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)16m
- Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation7m
- Problems with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)5m
- Nominal Income and Real Income12m
- Nominal Interest, Real Interest, and the Fisher Equation5m
- Who is Affected by Inflation?5m
- Demand-Pull and Cost-Push Inflation6m
- Costs of Inflation: Shoe-leather Costs and Menu Costs4m
- Productivity and Economic Growth (MACROECONOMICS)1h 4m
- The Financial System (MACROECONOMICS)1h 30m
- Income and Consumption (MACROECONOMICS)57m
- Deriving the Aggregate Expenditures Model (MACROECONOMICS)1h 14m
- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis (MACROECONOMICS)1h 22m
- Aggregate Demand17m
- Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model12m
- Shifting Aggregate Demand4m
- Long Run Aggregate Supply9m
- Short Run Aggregate Supply7m
- Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply8m
- AD-AS Model: Equilibrium in the Short Run and Long Run5m
- AD-AS Model: Shifts in Aggregate Demand18m
- The Monetary System (MACROECONOMICS)58m
- The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money8m
- Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M22m
- Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier8m
- Introduction to the Federal Reserve8m
- The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply11m
- History of the US Banking System9m
- The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (The Great Recession)10m
- Monetary Policy (MACROECONOMICS)1h 26m
- Fiscal Policy (MACROECONOMICS)52m
- Tradeoffs Between Inflation and Unemployment (MACROECONOMICS)1h 2m
- Open-Economy Macroeconomics (MACROECONOMICS)1h 44m
- Balance of Payments: Introduction5m
- Balance of Payments: Current Account8m
- Balance of Payments: Financial Account and Capital Account7m
- Net Exports Equal Net Foreign Investment7m
- Balance of Trade; Trade Deficit and Trade Surplus6m
- Exchange Rates: Introduction14m
- Exchange Rates: Nominal and Real13m
- Exchange Rates: Equilibrium8m
- Exchange Rates: Shifts in Supply and Demand11m
- Exchange Rates and Net Exports6m
- Exchange Rates: Purchasing Power Parity3m
- The Gold Standard4m
- The Bretton Woods System6m
- Macroeconomic Schools of Thought (MACROECONOMICS)31m
- Dynamic AD/AS Model (MACROECONOMICS)32m
10. The Costs of Production
Revenue, Cost, and Profit
Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes how total cost is calculated in microeconomics?
A
Total cost equals fixed cost plus variable cost.
B
Total cost equals total revenue minus profit.
C
Total cost equals price multiplied by quantity.
D
Total cost equals marginal cost times quantity.
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Understand the components of total cost in microeconomics: total cost (TC) is the sum of fixed costs (FC) and variable costs (VC). Fixed costs are expenses that do not change with the level of output, while variable costs vary with production.
Recall the formula for total cost: \(\text{TC} = \text{FC} + \text{VC}\), which means total cost is calculated by adding fixed costs and variable costs together.
Evaluate the other options by their definitions: total revenue minus profit gives total cost, but this is a rearrangement of the profit equation rather than a direct calculation of total cost; price multiplied by quantity gives total revenue, not total cost; marginal cost times quantity does not equal total cost because marginal cost is the cost of producing one additional unit, not the average cost per unit.
Confirm that the best description of total cost calculation is the sum of fixed and variable costs, as this directly reflects the total expenses incurred in production.
Summarize that in microeconomics, total cost is most accurately and commonly calculated as \(\text{TC} = \text{FC} + \text{VC}\).
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