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you are managing a small plastics manufacturing firm and currently have the (long run) capacity to produce 500 tons of industrial plastic sheets every quarter. you are considering investing in capacity expansion but are not sure by how much. one concern you have is what production cost implications you might be facing. you hire an operations manager to research this. he transmits to you the following information (see the table below), however some information got lost in translation. capacity total cost 0.0 500.0 20,000.0 600.0 21,000.0 700.0 22,000.0 800.0 23,000.0 900.0 27,000.0 1,000.0 34,000.0 1,100.0 46,000.0 1,200.0 60,000.0 what does this data imply about capacity expansion? group of answer choices expanding beyond 500 will lead to diseconomies of scale. you can always experience economies of scale by expanding capacity to 1,200 anve beyond. you can realize economies of scale until you reach a capcity of 800. you don't want to increase capacity beyond 600 due to diminishing marginal product of varaible inputs..