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1 ECON 202_ONLINE Homework #1 50 points Carly McLaren 50118 1) Which of the following goods or services are included in the U.S. GDP, and which are not? Answer : ( circle or highlight the correct answer) (14 points) a. Medical services provided during a patient’s stay at the hospital Included Excluded b. Child care provided by a licensed day care center Included Excluded c. Grandmother watching her grandchildren in her spare time Included Excluded d. Sale of a used car Included Excluded e. Sale of a new car Included Excluded f. Commission of a car sales agent who helped you sell your used car Included Excluded g. Lawn mowing by a homeowner Included E xcluded h. Lawn mowing by a lawn mowing company Included Excluded i. The cost of college education Included Excluded j. Sale of cocaine in the night club Included Excluded k. Spending on home security, police, and prisons in order to reduce the crime rate I ncluded Excluded l. The cost of firms’ buying antipollution equipment required by the government Included Excluded m. Mary buying a pack of diapers and a frozen pizza in Costco (American wholesaler) in Michigan Included Excluded
2 n. John buying a pack of beer and two frozen pizzas in Costco (American wholesaler) in Toronto, Canada Included Excluded 2) Refer to the table below . For all of the questions below , show your calculations and the unit of account of your answers . 2011 2013 Product Quantity Price, $ Quantity Price, $ Hats 200 20 250 21 French fries 2,000 1 2,300 2 Digital cameras 40 200 50 140 a. Calculate nominal 2013 GDP Answer : (4 points) Nominal GDP= Sum of current year price * Current Year Quantity of all the goods ($21*250) +($2*2300) +($140*50)= $5250+ $4600 + $7000= $16850 b. Calculate real 2013 GDP Answer : (4 points) Real GDP= Sum of the base year price * Current year quantity of all the goods ($20*250) + ($1+ 2300) + ($200*50)= $5000 +$2300 +$10000= $17300 3) Consider a U.S.-based company Ford that is assembling its small cars in Mexico, using Mexican labor, and then exports them back to the U.S. The production of these cars will count (if at all) towards____________ ( circle all that applies ): Answer : (4 points) U.S. GDP U.S. GNP Mexican GDP Mexican GNP None of the above 4) The picture below shows an economy’s business cycle . a) Label both axes. (2 points) b) Find a point at which economy’s real GDP is the largest and label it A . (1 points) c) Find a point at which economy’s real GDP is the smallest and label it B .
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