It also stimulates production of IGF-1. GH is used as a prescription drug in medicine to treat children's growth disorders and adult growth hormone deficiency. In the United States, it is only available legally from pharmacies, by prescription from a doctor.
Marginal cost is the change in total cost when another unit is produced; average cost is the total cost divided by the number of goods produced. Distinguish between marginal and average costs. The marginal cost is the cost of producing one more unit of a good.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MARGINAL COST CURVE 489 TABLE 8. RELATIONS BETWEEN LEAST AVERAGE COST AND THE MARGINAL COST OF THE SAME INTERVAL Output by Total Average Marginal intuer v f intervals1 cost cost cost 7 $182.05408 $26.00773 8 200.57477 25.07185 $18.52069 Difference in Average Costs: $26.00773-$25.07185=$0.93588.