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If the average variable cost of producing 4 burritos is $20 and the average variable cost of producing 5 burritos is $25, then the marginal cost of increasing output from 4 to 5 burritos is

$45

If the wage rate paid to a textile employee is $120 and the marginal product of a worker is 12 yards of fabric, this means that for each additional dollar spent on labor, there is a gain of ________ yards of fabric.

0.1

The demand curve for a monopolist is given by P=50-Q. Their marginal cost is given by MC=10. The firm has no fixed costs. What will the firm's profits equal? $0 $200 $400 $600

$400

The demand curve for a monopolist is given by P=50-Q. Their marginal cost is given by MC=10. The firm has no fixed costs. What will the firm's profits equal?

$400

If a monopolistically competitive firm is producing 9,000 units of output and at this output level, the price is $10 and the average total cost is $10, the firm profit/loss is equal to ________ and it ________ possible for the firm to be in long-run equilibrium.

$0; is

Suppose that XYZ Inc. has total costs that can be expressed as: Tc(q)=10,000+2Q-3Q^2+4Q^3 If XYZ Inc. produces 10 units of output, what are the firm's average fixed costs?

$1,000

You work at a firm that makes fountain pens. The marginal cost of producing a fountain pen at your firm is given by the equation: MC = 5 + .01q The price people will pay for a fountain pen varies from year to year depending on what happens at the annual hipster convention. There, a buffalo nickle is flipped and in years when it lands "tails" up, the price of a fountain pen will be $50, however in all other years the price will be $40. Sadly, you must make your production decision before these coins are flipped. You do your best to maximize profits by setting E[MR] = MC, but you are always off a bit. What would be the value of changing the timing of your production run in order to know exactly what the price of a fountain pen will be?

$1,250

How much will $1,000 saved today be worth 10 years from now if you earn a 5% annual interest rate (compounded annually) over that time period?

$1,628.89

If the Qd = (50 million) - (4 million × P) and QS = (0) + (1 million × P), the equilibrium price for the product is ________.

$10

You are invited to play a lottery. Entering the lottery costs $25 and you will receive an amount in return for the number you roll on a six-sided die, with you being entitled to $10 times the number you roll. Rolling a 1 pays $10, rolling a 2 pays $20, rolling a 3 pays $20, and so on. What is the expected value of entering this lottery?

$10 There are 6 possible outcomes. In two of them you lose money, in the other four you will make profits. The expected value comes from the sum of (payoff - 25)x(1/6) for each possible (10 - 25)x(1/6) + (20 - 25)x(1/6)+(30- 25)x(1/6)+(40 - 25)x(1/6)+(50 - 25)x(1/6)+(60 - 25)x(1/6) = $10

Suppose that Dave gets happiness from money according to the utility function U($) = $. This means that $25 worth of money gives him 25 units of happiness and $50 worth of money gives him 50 units of happiness. Suppose a casino lets him bet on the spin of a roulette wheel. He can bet $10 on black and will win $X if the ball falls in a black bin, or lose his $10 if the ball falls in either a red or green bin. Suppose further that there are are 24 possible black bins, 24 red bins, and two green bins. What is the minimum amount of money $x that Dave would need to win in order to be willing to play this game? Round your answer up to the nearest penny.

$10.84 He will lose 52% of the time and will win only 48% of the time. This means that he expects to lose $5.20 on any spin. His expected winnings must be just as large or larger to be willing to play. That means he must each x*(.48) = 5.2. Divide both sides by .48 to get x.

Every year Dave's grandmother sends him a $25 check. Dave is an impatient person and has a discount rate over future income of 25%,. If both Dave and his grandmother live forever, what is the present discounted value of all of the birthday checks Dave will receive in his infinite lifetime?

$100

Will works for a hedge fund and earns a base salary of $100,000. Every February he is evaluated and possibly earns a bonus. His boss tells him he is "50% sure" Will is going to be awarded a bonus, but doesn't say how much. From past experience, Will knows bonuses can be anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 and he thinks there is an equal probability that it will be any number between those two values. How much money does Will expect to earn this year between?

$137,500

The figure above shows the wholesale demand and marginal revenue curves for Slick Shades Sunglasses, a sunglasses firm with market power. Slick Shades Sunglasses has a constant marginal cost of production and it sells to perfectly competitive independent retail distributors that have a constant marginal cost of distribution. Slick Shades has a constant marginal cost of production equal to $40 and the distributors have a constant marginal cost of distribution equal to $20. If Slick Shades is producing the profit-maximizing number of sunglasses (in hundreds) and charging the profit-maximizing wholesale price, what is the retail price? MR down 0,200 to 95,0 Ddown 0,200 to 90,110

$140

Deirdre's Soap Company is a small firm in a perfectly competitive market. Deirdra has a total cost curve for producing Q bars of soap given by the equation TC(q)=2+q+12q2 Her marginal cost is given by: MC(q)=1+q If the market price is $4 per bar of soap, what will be Deirdre's profit? $2.50 $12.00 $4.00 $9.50

$2.50

if the marginal cost of producing the first unit of some good is $20 and the marginal cost of producing the second unit is $30, the average variable cost of producing two units is

$25

Suppose a supplier has an agreement with a firm to be paid $3,500 in 2 years. If the annual interest rate is 4 percent, the supplier would be indifferent between receiving ________ now and waiting 2 years to receive the $3,500.

$3,235.95

Suppose that XYZ Inc. has total costs that can be expressed as: TC(Q)=10,000+2Q−3Q2+4Q3 If XYZ Inc. produces 10 units of output, what are the firm's average variable costs? $13,720 $372 $1,372 $3,720

$372 use derivatives

At the profit maximizing level of output, a monopoly firm has a marginal cost of production for the last unit sold of $2 and the elasticity of demand at this quantity is equal to 2. What is the per-unit price at which this firm is selling its output?

$4.00

Big Waves is a large water park. Suppose the individual demand for entrance into Big Waves is Qd = 50 - (2 × P) and each consumer has the same demand. Big Waves has a constant marginal cost of $5 per consumer. If Big Waves practices two-part pricing and requires a membership fee and then a separate entrance fee, what is the profit-maximizing membership fee?

$400

Suppose there are only two companies in the whole world that manufacture and sell hoverboards: ABC Corp and XYZ Inc. Both companies have similar technology that allows them to make hoverboards for $20 each. Neither firm has any fixed costs. The worldwide demand for hoverboards is pretty low now that they are known to catch fire. It can be expressed by the inverse demand function below: P(Q)=200−Q Suppose that ABC Corp. and XYZ Inc. are able to form a cartel. If they split the market evenly and each produce the profit maximizing quantity of hoverboards, how much more profit will each firm make when colluding to sell hoverboards as compared to the Cournot-Nash equilibrium where they compete on quantity?

$450

Suppose there are only two companies in the whole world that manufacture and sell hoverboards: ABC Corp and XYZ Inc. Both companies have similar technology that allows them to make hoverboards for $20 each. Neither firm has any fixed costs. The worldwide demand for hoverboards is pretty low now that they are known to catch fire. It can be expressed by the inverse demand function below: P(Q)=200−Q Suppose that ABC Corp. and XYZ Inc. are able to form a cartel. If they split the market evenly and each produce the profit maximizing quantity of hoverboards, how much more profit will each firm make when colluding to sell hoverboards as compared to the Cournot-Nash equilibrium where they compete on quantity? $450 $900 $1,800 $3,600

$450

Suppose that GNV Pool owns the only community pool in Gainesville, FL. The market demand for annual passes to this pool is Q = 600 - 2P where Q is the quantity of annual passes demanded and P is the per-pass price. GNV Pool knows that it has a total cost of providing annual passes equal to TC(q)=25,000+(1/4)q^2 What is GNV pool's profit or loss at the profit-maximizing quantity?

$5,000 profit

if labor is the only variable input and it costs $15 per hour and if the marginal product of labor is 3 units per hour, the short-run marginal cost of 1 unit of output is approximately

$5.00

You run a waterpark. Each year, your waterpark hosts 100,000 guests. Each guest pays $25 to enjoy the waterpark and your (constant) marginal costs are $10 per guest. The fixed costs of operating the park for the year are $500,000. Sadly, 1 out of every 100 guests will fall off a waterslide during their visit to your park and of those who fall off a waterslide 1 out of 10 will sue you. Of those who sue, 1 out of 100 will win the suit and will be awarded exactly $500,000. Based on this information, what is your expected profit per guest?

$5.00 or $15.00

a firm produces 400 books and sells each book for $15. if the explicit cost of producing the books is $4,500 and the implicit cost is $1,000, the firms economic profit is

$500

At 100 units of output, a firm's total cost is $10,000. If the firm's total fixed cost is $4,000, its average variable cost is equal to

$60

What is the expected value (rounded to the nearest dollar) of purchasing a 10 year annuity today that will pay $10,000 annually (first payment is one year from today) if your annual discount rate is 10%?

$61,446

The table above shows the amount of labor inputs necessary to produce given levels of output. If the cost of a unit of labor is $20 and total fixed cost is $100, the average total cost of producing 20 units of output is units input units output 1 8 2 20 3 30

$7

Suppose a uni-variate regression is run with N=100 data points, yielding a coefficient estimate for the X variable of 2.5. The standard error associated with this estimate was calculated to be 1.2. Which of the following ranges represents the 95% confidence interval associated with this coefficient estimate? (-1.2, 1.2) (1.3, 3,7) (2.5, 4.85) (0.15, 4.85)

(0.15, 4.85)

Casino War is a card game played with a single 52 card deck. The cards are ranked in the same way that cards in poker games are ranked, with aces being the highest cards. One card each is dealt to a dealer and to a player. If the player's card is higher, he or she wins the wager they bet. However, if the dealer's card is higher, the player loses their bet. A tie occurs when the dealer and the player each have cards of the same rank. In a tie situation, the player has two options: The player can surrender, in which case the player loses half the bet. The player can go to war, in which case the player must double his stake. If the player continues play in view of a tie, the dealer burns (discards) three cards before dealing each of them an additional card. If the player's card is ranked higher than the dealer's, then the player wins the amount of his original wager only. If the dealer's card is ranked higher than the player's, the player loses his (doubled) wager. If the ranks are equal, then the player wins the amount of his doubled wager. What is the expected value of betting $10 on this game if the player knows they will surrender in the event of a tie? Round all probabilities to the nearest whole number value (i.e. 46% or .46, not 46.2% or .46234)

-$0.30 There is a 3/51 chance of a tie. There is a (1-(3/51))/2 chance that you will win and walk away with your wager plus that of the dealer = $20, and a (1-(3/51))/2 chance you will lose and walk away with $0. In the event of the tie, you walk away with $5. No matter what, you are out the $10 you paid to play. You will expect to win $9.70, but since it will cost $10 to play, you expect to lose money.

Instead of being employed at a printing company at a salary of $25,000 per year, Sally starts her own printing firm. Rather than renting a building that she owns to someone else for $10,000 per year, she uses it as the location for her company. Her costs for workers, materials, advertising, and energy during her first year are $125,000. If the total revenue from her printing company is $155,000, her total economic profit is

-$5,000

You are currently the manager at SkyZone, a trampoline jumping warehouse. Your firm is deciding whether to build a new warehouse on some land the firm already owns in Vermillion The warehouse will cost $1 million to build and will generate $200,000 in operating profits each year for 5 years. At that point the trampolines will have worn out and the warehouse will be useless. The trampolines' metal frames can be recycled and would earn $100,000 from a scrap metal purchaser. The firm will keep the land (you can ignore the land value in this problem) What is the net present value of this warehouse investment (rounded to the nearest dollar) assuming a discount rate of 5%?

-$55,752

An economic analyst for XYZ Inc. has estimated that company's demand function for their flagship product, the Widget: QWidgets=12,000−3PWidgets+P−M+2A In the demand function, P is the price of good Y, M is the income of consumers in the area, and A is the amount of money XYZ Inc. spends advertising Widgets. Given this information, what is the slope of the demand curve for Widgets? −3 2 −1/3 −1

-1/3

Suppose when the price of pineapples goes from $5 to $3 per pineapple, production decreases from 3,500 pineapples to 2,000 pineapples per year. Using the mid-point method, the percentage change in price would be:

-50%

Suppose when the price of pineapples goes from $5 to $3 per pineapple, production decreases from 3,500 pineapples to 2,000 pineapples per year. Using the mid-point method, the percentage change in price would be: -0.50 -50% 0.54 54%

-50%

If a 4 percent increase in the price of a good leads to a 1 percent decrease in the quantity demanded, the price elasticity of demand for the good equals ________.

0.25

Your boss needs your help calculating the present value of some future revenue. She tells you to assume a discount rate of 5% for all calculations and wants to know the present value of revenue that will be earned 8 years from now. What discount factor should you use to discount those future revenues back to present dollars?

0.6768

Labor (L) Capital (K) Output (Q) 0 10 0 1 10 15 3 10 25 4 10 30 6 10 32 Given the short-run production function described by the table above, what is the marginal product of labor associated with hiring the fifth worker? 5 units of output 10 units of output 2 units of output 1 unit of output

1 unit of output

If the price of a bushel of sugar beets falls from $10.50 to $9.50, and that price drop causes the quantity of bushels demanded to increase from 188 to 212 bushels, then this means the price elasticity of demand for sugar beets is (use the arc elasticity formula)

1.2

If the price of a bushel of sugar beets falls from $10.50 to $9.50, and that price drop causes the quantity of bushels demanded to increase from 188 to 212 bushels, then this means the price elasticity of demand for sugar beets is (use the arc elasticity formula) 0.8 1.0 1.2 8.0

1.2

At the profit−maximizing ​quantity, the price elasticity of demand is 2.5. What is the​ markup? A. 2.57 B. 1.67 C. 0.71 D. 1.32

1.67

What is the probability of randomly drawing a card from a standard deck of playing cards, finding that it is an ace, then replacing it in the deck, randomly drawing another card, and finding that you have drawn an ace once more?

1/169 You have a 1/13 chance of drawing an ace initially. Having drawn an ace and replacing it, you have a 1/13 chance of drawing another ace. This gives a probability of 1/169

What is the probability of randomly drawing two cards from a standard deck of playing cards and both of the cards being aces?

1/221 You have a 1/13 chance of drawing an ace initially. Having drawn an ace, you have a 3/51 chance of drawing another ace. This gives a probability of 3/663 = 1/221

An economic analyst for XYZ Inc. has estimated that company's demand function for their flagship product, the Widget: QWidgets=12,000−3PWidgets+P−M+2A In the demand function, P is the price of good Y, M is the income of consumers in the area, and A is the amount of money XYZ Inc. spends advertising Widgets. What is the point price elasticity of demand for widgets (in absolute value) if the price of good Y is $100 per unit, XYZ Inc. spends $750 on advertising, consumer income is $10,000 and the price of a widget is $200? 1/5 1 3 1/2

1/5

The table shows the market demand for a product that both Firm X and Firm Y manufacture. Both firms produce an identical product and the​ firms' average total and marginal cost are equal and constant. If this market is a Cournot Oligopoly and Firm X is produces 50​ units, what is Firm​ Y's profit−maximizing quantity if their average total and marginal cost are constant and equal to​ $60? Price market Demand 100 0 90 50 80 100 70 150 60 200 A. 200 B. 50 C. 150 D. 100

100

uppose that XYZ Inc. sells widgets and faces a demand function of: Qd=125−12P The firm also has a constant MC = ATC of $20 per unit. XYZ Inc. can maximize total revenue by setting a price of $ ______per widget. (In the space above, provide a number representing the price at which XYZ Inc. maximizes total revenue, precise to two decimals. Ex: 8.78. Do not include any intermediate calculations.)

125

The Ellsworth Creamery makes cheese curds at three locations. The marginal costs of producing 100lb cases of cheese curds at each facility (where q represents the numberof 100lb cases of cheese curds) are listed below: A: MCa(q)=5+q B: MCb(q)=1/60*q^2 C: MCc(q)=3/2*q^2 If the competitive price for a 100lb case of cheese curds is $60, how many 100lb cases will Ellsworth Creamery produce across all of their facilities?

125 cases

A vegan ice-cream shop wants your help managing their inventory. They sell only a single flavor per day and no flavor is ever served twice. As a result, if they over-produce they will be left with wasted product, but if they produce too little they will upset some customers who might not return (not to mention they will miss out on profits!). A vegan ice cream cone sells for $5.00 and costs $0.50 to produce. Based on their past sales data (summarized in the table below), what is the profit-maximizing quantity of vegan ice cream cones to carry in the store each day? Qsold Probability of Qd Prob selling more Prob selling less 100 10% 100% 0% 110 20% 90% 10% 120 60% 70% 30% 130 10% 10% 90%

130

XYZ Inc. has a monopoly in the widget market in Vermillion, SD. The market demand curve for widgets in Vermillion is: Qd=100−P and XYZ Inc. has total costs of TC(q)=25+60q+q2 and marginal costs of MC(q)=60+2q If XYZ Inc. acts as a monopolist, what level of profits will the firm earn. Enter the number below. _____(Do not show any work, do not include a dollar sign. The number should be precise to two decimals. If you include anything other than a number in the format "xxx.xx" representing the amount of profits XYZ Inc. will earn in this market, you will not receive credit for this problem)

175

Suppose that GNV Pool owns the only community pool in Gainesville, FL. The market demand for annual passes to this pool is Q = 600 - 2P where Q is the quantity of annual passes demanded and P is the per-pass price. GNV Pool knows that it has a total cost of providing annual passes equal to TC(q)=25,000+(1/4)q^2 What is the price per pass at GNV pool's profit-maximizing quantity?

200

Suppose that GNV Pool owns the only community pool in Gainesville, FL. The market demand for annual passes to this pool is Q = 600 - 2P where Q is the quantity of annual passes demanded and P is the per-pass price. GNV Pool knows that it has a total cost of providing annual passes equal to TC(q)=25,000+(1/4)q^2 What is the profit-maximizing quantity of passes that GNV pool will sell?

200

You work at a small restaurant that wants to advertise all of their soda options. They currently have a soda machine that houses 12 different types of soda, and a nozzle that allows any three of those 12 types to be poured together at once. How many unique flavor options can your restaurant honestly advertise as being able to pour?

220 unique flavor combinations

A coin is flipped twice. What is the probability that the coin will come up heads on the first flip and then tails on the second flip?

25%

The figure below shows the two potential demand curves and the marginal cost curve for the production of grapes by your vineyard. (image with green line DH at $3,000 P, Red DL at $1,000 and then MC from $500 to 600Q. Cross at 1000;100 and 3000;500) If the probability of demand being high, DH, is 40 percent and the probability of demand being low, DL, is 60 percent, what quantity of grapes maximizes your expected profit?

260 tons of grapes per year E[MR] = ($3,000 per ton x 0.40) + ($1,000 per ton x 0.60) = $1,800 per ton. This means that the vineyard should produce 260 tons of grapes per year, according to the marginal cost curve.

The figure below shows the two potential demand curves and the marginal cost curve for the production of grapes by your vineyard. If the probability of demand being high, DH, is 40 percent and the probability of demand being low, DL, is 60 percent, what quantity of grapes maximizes your expected profit? DM green at $3000, DL red at 1000, MC up from 0,500 to 600,3500

260 tons of grapes per year E[MR] = ($3,000 per ton x 0.40) + ($1,000 per ton x 0.60) = $1,800 per ton. This means that the vineyard should produce 260 tons of grapes per year, according to the marginal cost curve.

Tibbet Sports is a single-location retailer carrying sporting goods, including football helmets. Tibbet will sell 900 helmets this year but cannot fit that many helmets in their store. The fixed cost of ordering more helmets from their distributor is $20 and the annual carrying cost of keeping a helmet in the store is $40. Given this information and using the economic order quantity model, what is the cost-minimizing number of helmets Tibbet Sports should order from their distributor each time they run out of inventory?

30 helmets

Suppose there are only two companies in the whole world that manufacture and sell hoverboards: ABC Corp and XYZ Inc. Both companies have similar technology that allows them to make hoverboards for $20 each. Neither firm has any fixed costs. The worldwide demand for hoverboards is pretty low now that they are known to catch fire. It can be expressed by the inverse demand function below: P(Q)=200 - Q If XYZ Inc. has announced that it will produce 100 hoverboards, what is the best response (production level) for ABC Corp?

40 Hoverboards

Suppose there are only two companies in the whole world that manufacture and sell hoverboards: ABC Corp and XYZ Inc. Both companies have similar technology that allows them to make hoverboards for $20 each. Neither firm has any fixed costs. The worldwide demand for hoverboards is pretty low now that they are known to catch fire. It can be expressed by the inverse demand function below: P(Q)=200−Q If XYZ Inc. has announced that it will produce 100 hoverboards, what is the best response (production level) for ABC Corp? 0 Hoverboards 20 Hoverboards 40 Hoverboards 90 Hoverboards

40 Hoverboards

the following questions are based on the table below, which gives cost information for a perfectly competitive firm. if the product price is $85, how many units of output must the firm produce in order to maximize profits? Q AFC AVC MC 0 1 100 55 55 2 50 45 35 3 33.33 50 60 4 25 55 70 5 20 60 80 6 16.67 65 90

5

Suppose that you are a manager at the only Ford dealership in Great Falls, Montana. Your service department is closed on Saturday, but you are considering whether to open. If you do, you estimate there are three possibilities: (1) You attract little business, so you have only 20 new Saturday customers each month; (2) you attract some business, so you have 40 new Saturday customers each month; or (3) your initiative is a resounding success, with 100 new Saturday customers each month. If the probability of outcome 1 is 25 percent, the probability of outcome 2 is 50 percent, and the probability of outcome 3 is 25 percent, what is your expected number of customers?

50 This is nearly identical to the solved problem on page 600 of the textbook. The calculation is EV = (1/4)20 + (1/2)40 + (1/4)100 = 50

Your bakery firm sells loaves of bread for $7.50, and the cost of producing each loaf is $1.50. If a loaf of bread is not sold the day it is produced, it is donated to a local food bank. Suppose that as a manager you use past sales data to estimate that the probabilities of selling different quantities of bread are the same probabilities shown in the table below. What is the profit-maximizing quantity of bread loaves to carry in inventory? QDemanded Prob Demanded Prob more Prob Less 50 0.10 1.00 0.00 51 0.10 0.90 0.10 52 0.10 0.80 0.20 53 0.20 0.70 0.30 54 0.20 0.50 0.50 55 0.10 0.30 0.70 56 0.10 0.20 0.80 57 0.10 0.10 0.90 58 0.00 0.00 1.00

56 loaves of bread Your optimal inventory will be the quantity that sets E[MB] = E[MC], or (P - C) * Prob(QD >= Q*) = (C - PS) * Prob(QD < Q*).

Using Excel, the manager of Quick Breaks Coffees has estimated the daily demand function for its regular coffees; the results are shown in the table above. If a price of $5 is charged for the coffees, the predicted quantity demanded is ________. Multiple R0.98​​​​​ R Square0.96​​​​​ Adjusted R Square0.95​​​​​ Standard Error3.3​​​​​Observations35​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Coef StError tStat P lower upper Intercept 170.03 3.19 53.16 0.00 163.53 176.54 Price -22.48 0.74 -30.11 0.00 -24.01 -20.96

57.63

Suppose there are only two companies in the whole world that manufacture and sell hoverboards: ABC Corp and XYZ Inc. Both companies have similar technology that allows them to make hoverboards for $20 each. Neither firm has any fixed costs. The worldwide demand for hoverboards is pretty low now that they are known to catch fire. It can be expressed by the inverse demand function below: P(Q)=200−Q Suppose that ABC Corp. and XYZ Inc. are able to form a cartel. How many hoverboards will each firm produce when they collude to maximize profits? ABC Corp will produce 45 Hoverboards and XYZ Inc. will produce 45 Hoverboards ABC Corp will produce 45 Hoverboards and XYZ Inc. will produce 60 Hoverboards ABC Corp will produce 60 Hoverboards and XYZ Inc. will produce 45 Hoverboards ABC Corp will produce 60 Hoverboards and XYZ Inc. will produce 60 Hoverboards

ABC Corp will produce 45 Hoverboards and XYZ Inc. will produce 45 Hoverboards

Suppose that the market for corn in Atlantis, a small closed economy, can be described by the following demand and supply equations where P is the price per unit of corn and Q is units of corn: Demand: Q = 10,000 - 100P Supply: Q = 100P - 2,000 If the government of Atlantis decides to implement a price support program in this market, which of the following statements is false (holding everything else constant)?

If the price floor implemented is $80 per unit of corn, then the government will need to spend $80,000 to purchase all of the excess supply at that price.

Suppose that the market for corn in Atlantis, a small closed economy, can be described by the following demand and supply equations where P is the price per unit of corn and Q is units of corn: Demand: Q = 10,000 - 100P Supply: Q = 100P - 2,000 If the government of Atlantis decides to implement a price support program in this market, which of the following statements is false (holding everything else constant)? To be effective this price support program must implement a price floor that is greater than $60 per unit of corn. If the price floor implemented is $80 per unit of corn, then the government will need to spend $80,000 to purchase all of the excess supply at that price. If the price floor implemented is $80 per unit of corn, then consumer expenditure on corn will be equal to $160,000. All of the above are true

If the price floor implemented is $80 per unit of corn, then the government will need to spend $80,000 to purchase all of the excess supply at that price.

Suppose that Dave gets happiness from money according to the utility function U($) = $. This means that $25 worth of money gives him 25 units of happiness and $50 worth of money gives him 50 units of happiness. Suppose a casino lets him bet on the spin of a roulette wheel. He can bet $10 on black and will win $10 if the ball falls in a black bin, or lose his $10 if the ball falls in either a red or green bin. Suppose further that there are are 24 possible black bins, 24 red bins, and two green bins. How much would we expect playing this game would impact Dave's happiness?

It makes him 0.40 units less happy if he plays the game vs. not playing the game. He will lose 52% of the time and will win only 48% of the time. This means that he expects to lose $0.40 if he plays the game, which equates to .4 fewer units of happiness.

Refer to the table above. If A = 6 and B = 8, which of the following is true? Input 1 Input 2 Input 3 Price $10 $15 $20 MP 4 A B

The firm is minimizing costs.

Refer to the table above. If A = 5, B = 7.5, and C = 20, which of the following is true? Input 1 Input 2 Input 3 p 20 30 40 MP A B C

The firm should buy more of Input 3 and less of Inputs 1 and 2.

The demand for your product demands on three factors; the price of your good, the price of a related good, and the average income of your customers. Excel estimated the above linear demand for your product. Refer to the table above. A $1 increase in the price of the related good will lead to a(n) ________ in the quantity demanded of your good by ________. Multiple R0.99​​​​​ R Square0.98​​​​​ Adjusted R Square0.97​​​​​ Standard Error2.52​​​​​ Observations35​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Coef StError t P Lower Upper Intercept 131.92 17.76 7.43 0.00 97.11 166.73 Price Good -7.46 1.18 -6.34 0.00 -9.86 -5.06 Price Related 10.24 0.97 10.60 0.00 8.27 12.21 Income 0.30 0.10 3.00 0.01 0.10 0.50

increase; 10.24

​$6.67 The managers of Movies​ Plus, a large movie​ theater, want to practice third−degree price discrimination. The managers have learned that college students have an own price elasticity of demand of 4.0 for tickets at Movies Plus and adults have an own price elasticity of 2.0. If the managers have correctly determined the third−degree profit−maximizing price for adults is​ $10, what is the third−degree profit−maximizing price to charge​ students? A. ​$12.00 B. ​$15.00 C. ​$5.50 D. ​$6.67

​$6.67

A small nation has three gasoline suppliers with a linear monthly market demand equal​ to: Q ​= 500,000 − 5P. Each​ firm's marginal cost ​(MC​) and average total cost ​(ATC​) curves are horizontal at​ $10,000 per month. Refer to the information above. If the firms​ compete, what is the equilibrium quantity in the​ market? A. ​50,000 B. ​450,000 C. ​45,000 D. ​500,000

​450,000

A small nation has three gasoline suppliers with a linear monthly market demand equal​ to: Q ​= 500,000 − 5P. Each​ firm's marginal cost ​(MC​) and average total cost ​(ATC​) curves are horizontal at​ $10,000 per month. Refer to the information above. What is slope of the demand​ curve? A. 0.20 B. 5 C. −5 D. −0.20

−0.20


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