Big Red Company, a manufacturer of computer hardware components, uses direct labor cost to allocate its production overhead. In its hard-drive division, it allocates $12.50 per direct labor hour as the standard rate. The overhead includes supervision and machine setup cost. SCSI and SATA drives take the same time to produce, but the setup time for SATA is three times as long as the setup time for SCSI. The company will describe machine setup activity as a(n) activity.

A
product-level

B
unit-level

C
batch-level

D
organization-level

Because this market is a monopolistically competitive market, you can tell that it is in long-run equilibrium by the fact thatmr=mc at the optimal quantity for each firm. furthermore, a monopolistically competitive firm's average total cost in long-run equilibrium isless than the minimum average total cost. true or false: this indicates that there is a markup on marginal cost in the market for engines. true false monopolistic competition may also be socially inefficient because there are too many or too few firms in the market. the presence of the externality implies that there is too little entry of new firms in the market.