Use your own language to explain that short run supply curve by a price-taking firm is the positively-sloped portion of the short-run marginal cost curve.

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Explanation:

A price-taking firm is a firm in a perfectly competitive market where all firms are price takers. That is, no firm in a perfectly competitive can influence the price as only the market determines the price.

The short run supply curve for a price-taking firm refers to the short marginal cost (SMC) curve at and above the shutdown point.

Note: See the attached graph for the shut run supply curve. Also note that point E in the attached graph is the shutdown point.

The shutdown point is the point where the short run marginal cost (SMC) is equal to the average variable cost (AVC) (i.e. where MC = AVC = Shutdown point).

This indicates that the short-run supply curve for a price-taking firm is the part of the SMC curve that lies above AVC curve.

The part of the SMC curve that lies below the AVC or the shutdown point is not part of the short run supply curve of a price-taking firm, because the firm is not engaging in any production at that point.

Therefore, the short run supply curve of a price-taking firm is the increasing portion of the short run MC curve above the shutdown point.

This follows the law of supply which states that more quantity of the product of a firm will be supplied when there is a rise in the market price.

In summary, the short run supply curve of a price-taking firm is the positively-sloped portion of the short-run marginal cost curve

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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.