Scenario 1-3 Suppose a T-Shirt Manufacturer Currently Sells 5,000 T-Shirts Per Week

Multiple Choice

Scenario 1-3
Suppose a t-shirt manufacturer currently sells 5,000 t-shirts per week and makes a profit of $10,000 per week. A manager at the plant observes, "Although the last 400 t-shirts we produced and sold increased our revenue by $4,000 and our costs by $4,800, we are still making an overall profit of $10,000 per week so I think we're on the right track. We are producing the optimal number of t-shirts."

-Refer to Scenario 1-3. Using marginal analysis terminology, what is another economic term for the incremental cost of producing the last 400 t-shirts?

A) marginal cost
B) operating cost
C) explicit cost
D) Any of the above terms are correct.