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What is Average Fixed Cost or AFC

What is Average Fixed Cost. Also provide its formula?

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Average Fixed Cost (AFC): It is the product in firm’s total fixed cost divided by the total number of units of the product generated, or AFC = TFC/Q. This is per unit cost. Average fixed cost is one of two kinds of cost which the firm has in short run.  In short run, the fixed costs symbolize the firm’s costs which do not differ as the firm modifies its output. Such costs exist even when the firm shuts down, or generated nothing. 

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