Short and Long Run. Let's assume that you own a fast food restaurant and you are faced with many customers each day eating in the restaurant without any tables. Describe the difference between the short run and long run in the example to bringing about more tables for the customers. How is the restaurant able to differentiate between the short run and long run?
Fixed and Variable Costs. After reading Chapter in the text and viewing the required video for this week, Fixed, variable, and marginal cost, address the following in your initial post:
a. First, describe several different fixed costs and variable costs associated with operating an automobile.
b. Next, assume that you would like to travel from Los Angeles to New York City by either car or plane. Which costs would you take into account in making your decision, fixed costs, variable costs or both? Make sure to explain your analysis in the decision that you have to make.