• Question 1 1 out of 1 points Use the following demand and supply functions to answer the following question: Demand: Qd = 50 - 4P Supply Qs = 20 + 2P Equilibrium price and quantity are Answer Selected Answer: d. None of the above. Correct Answer: d. None of the above. • Question 2 0 out of 1 points Suppose a frost destroys much of the Florida orange corp. At the same time, suppose consumer tastes shift toward orange juice. What would we expect to happen to the equilibrium price and quantity in the market for orange juice? Answer Selected Answer: c. Price will decrease, quantity is indeterminate. Correct Answer: a. Price will increase, quantity is indeterminate (may increase or …show more content…
If both ticket revenues and blood donations rise with this plan, which of the following is true? Answer Selected Answer: a. The demand for Houston Rockets' tickets is price elastic. Correct Answer: a. The demand for Houston Rockets' tickets is price elastic. • Question 11 1 out of 1 points "At Huffy's ... bicycle factory, 1,700 employees turn out 15,000 bicycles a day (in 1987). Five years ago, it required 2,200 workers to make 10,000 bikes daily." (The Wall Street Journal). In 1987, Answer Selected Answer: a. total product was 15,000 bicycles per day. Correct Answer: a. total product was 15,000 bicycles per day. • Question 12 1 out of 1 points Use the following demand and supply functions to answer the following question: Demand: Qd = 50 - 4P Supply Qs = 20 + 2P If the price is $10, there is a Answer Selected Answer: a. surplus of 30 units. Correct Answer: a. surplus of 30 units. • Question 13 1 out of 1 points Which of the following statements is false? Answer Selected Answer: d. If economic profit is negative, accounting profit must also be negative. Correct Answer: d. If economic profit is negative, accounting profit must also be negative. • Question 14 1 out of 1
For both scenarios, the firm’s output price and average variable cost are the same. The difference lies in the average total cost. Because the total fixed cost is significantly higher, the average total cost is also significantly higher. It would be highly recommended that the firm shut down if total fixed costs are equal to 3,000,000. In the first scenario, the firm is also losing money. We would recommend laying off ten percent of the staff (5000 employees) to account for the $400,000 loss. However, it is important to note, employee productivity must be increased to 4.44 in order to maintain the 200,000 units per day. This would allow the firm to operate in a break even state.
Charles states as his number one point that economics is really unpredictable. He uses the Coca-Cola Company as a fine example for this. That company starts of turning out to be loss and failure but within 10 years since it started it turned out to be very profitable. Charles also states that markets are extreme powerhouses over individual’s daily lives. Markets are also self-correcting because they use prices to allocate their resources. Individuals all work for their own self-interest so they can be better off in the society. One very good example the author provides is the Soviet’s socialist economy and how it failed because the bureaucracy controlled the economy, or basically he’s saying that
However, if the school allows a competing student the right to sell ice cream on school property, it could change the price of ice cream. The price of ice cream is lowered due to technology. The invention of better ice cream machines or an idea to make better use of counter space can lower a firm’s cost and raise the quantity of ice cream it supplies. Prices could also be increased due to input prices. Less ice cream is supplied when workers need be paid more, therefore ice cream machines cost more, or even ingredients like
Apple Incorporation is one of the biggest high technology company that operates worldwide. Is was established on April 1, 1976 in California by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.The company is known for designing and manufacturing several technology devices include Smart Phones (iPhone), Tablets, iPods, iPads, Mac, Apple TV, Apple watches as known as smart watches, it also produce software’s like the OS X and iOS operating systems, and offers several online services such as iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple Care. The company strategy is to designee and enhances its own operating systems, software, hardware and other services by providing customers with new developed technology.
Using the data and your own economic knowledge, assess the case for financing universities mainly through charging fees to their students.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ECON1202/2291 QUANTITATIVE MEHODS A FINAL EXAMINATION SESSION 2 2008
Which of the following is not a requirement to become registered in PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario)
a. What would shoppers see when they shopped in Wal-Mart and the other “big box” stores that sell so many imported items?
c. Establishments in the fertile crescents. Civilizations that can support large populations form independently in Mesopotamia, N.China, Meso-America (Central America). Areas best suited to primitive agriculture
You have been working as an economic consultant, and you have seen a significant number of firms needing outside help to assist in business policy and formulation. Because of your strong reputation, you have just been hired as a consultant for one of the following organizations:
Indexi = 0.053 - 0.095 Fi + 0.020 PHDi + 0.007 FPHDi + 0.0015 TENi
What happens to the equilibrium price and quantity after these changes are put into effect? Do they go up, down or stay the same?P:_____down_____________Q:_____down__________________
SABMiller and Diageo are two largest beer producer in Africa. ”SABMiller, if combined with its partnership with France's Castel Group, sells roughly 60% Africa’s beer by volume. Diageo’s also expands its operation successfully that Senator Keg, its supercheap beer, is also now number two most popular beers in Kenya. As these giant brewers monopolized Africa’s beer market, it can be said that the market has an oligopoly market structure, and both pursue identic operations, so the market can be labeled as competitive. The interdependence that is happening between both brewers makes the competition happens. As SABMiller produces Impala that is half price from its previous beer Manica, Diageo produces Senator Keg to balance it. Diageo
Your paper should be between 1750 and 2500 words, in APA format and structured as follows:
This research topic is significant to the current property market in Singapore and its sudden increased demand for houses despite the economic downturn, exploring deeper as to whether the government policies were the real influential causes to this boom in property demand. It has relevance to the economic concepts of demand and supply, elasticity, inflation and monopolistic competition. This topic is worthy of investigation because it is a hot media topic in Singapore, and is widely debated in the country because it’s the most expensive household asset.[2]