The Scientific Method. The Scientific Method is an organized way that helps scientists (or anyone!) answer a question or begin to solve a problem. There are usually six parts to it. 1  Purpose/Question â What do you want to learn? 2  Research â Find out as much as you can. 3  Hypothesis â After doing your research, try to predict the answer to the problem.  Experiment â The fun 1  part! Analysis â Record what happened during the experiment.
Economic Definition of long-run average cost. Offline Version: PDF. Term long-run average cost Definition: The per unit cost of producing a good or service in the long run when all inputs are variable. In other words, long-run total cost divided by the quantity of output produced.
While the shape of the long-run marginal cost curve looks surprisingly like that of a short-run marginal cost curve, the underlying forces are different. This U-shape is NOT the result of increasing, then decreasing marginal returns that surface in the short run when a variable input is added to a fixed input.The negatively-sloped portion of this long-run marginal cost curve reflects economies of scale and increasing returns to scale. Long-run Average Cost: This curve graphically illustrates the relation between long-run average cost, which is the per unit cost incurred by all of the factors of production used in the long run by a firm to produce a good or service, and the level of production.