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Question: The six-tenths rule quantifies the relationship between the relevant costs of a firm's decision to expand and the increased internal economies that result from that expansion.

Given that C1 represents the relevant costs incurred in delivering an installed capacity of Y1 and C2 the new relevant costs incurred in delivering a new installed capacity of Y2, derive a mathematical relationship that relates n, the scaling factor to C1, C2, Y1 and Y2

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In general, costs do not rise in strict proportion to size. Nevertheless, the costs of a plant or equipment can be estimated when data are available for a similar project, but of different ...

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