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brutforce

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How is it possible for marginal cost to equal to the slope of either the total variable cost function or the total cost function?
 
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A decrease in government spending will result in a decrease in the price level and a decrease in real GDP in the long run.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The reason is that the total cost function is simply shifted up by the amount of total fixed costs from total variable costs. Since the slopes of both functions are the same it doesn't matter which one is used to calculate marginal cost.

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Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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