If a company decreases the variable expense per unit while increasing the total fixed expenses, the total expense line relative to its previous position will: multiple choice shift downward and have a steeper slope. shift downward and have a flatter slope. shift upward and have a flatter slope. shift upward and have a steeper slope.

The answer is: shift upward and have a flatter slope.

Explanation:

I will explain this using the following example:

The total costs of a company are calculated using the following formula:

Let's say the costs for producing 100 chairs is $2,000 fixed overhead and 15$ per chair (includes materials and direct labor). The total cost for producing those 100 chairs will be $2,000 + $1,500 = $3,500.

But the company buys new machinery and is able to lower the variable costs to $10 per chair but its fixed overhead increases to $2,500. The cost of producing the 100 chairs will be the same, $3,500, but its fixed will now be higher (the total expense line will shift upward) an the variable costs are lower now (the slope of the expense line will be flatter).

A decrease in the variable costs will favor larger production outputs, favoring economies of scale, even though fixed costs might also increase.

i think the answer would be b hope this

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.