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[This is part of the series: The Complete Guide To Economics 101.]
What is efficient scale?
Efficient Scale is the lowest level of output that minimizes Average Total Cost.
Average Fixed Costs decrease at a higher level of output, and Average Variable Costs increase at higher levels of output.
Efficient scale simply seeks to minimize this aggregate.