Micro Quiz 1
Consider Luis's decision to go to college. If he goes to college, he will spend $21,000 on tuition, $11,000 on room and board, and $1,800 on books. If he does not go to college, he will earn $16,000 working in a store and spend $7,200 on room and board. Luis's cost of going to college is
$42,600.
What is the opportunity cost to Footville of increasing the production of shoes from 400 to 600?
300 socks
Morgan buys a refrigerator for his new home. To which of the arrows does this transaction directly contribute?
A and B
The values in the table represent the amounts of lemonade and pizzas that Alice and Betty can produce in one week without and with specialization and trade. What are Alice and Betty's gains from specialization and trade?
Alice gains 7 pitchers of lemonade and 10 pizzas, while Betty gains 13 pitchers of lemonade and 10 pizzas.
Assume that John and Jane can switch between producing bread and wine at a constant rate. Assume that John and Jane each work 24 hours. What happens to total production if instead of each person spending 12 hours producing each good, Jane spends 21 hours producing wine and 3 hours producing bread and John spends 3 hours producing wine and 21 hours producing bread?
The total production of bread and wine each rise.
Ryan produces hair clips and earrings. Celia also produces hair clips and earrings, but Ryan is better at producing both goods. In this case, trade could
benefit both Celia and Ryan.
Economists make assumptions to
focus their thinking on the essence of the problem at hand.
The opportunity cost of obtaining 40 additional dryers by moving from point D to point C is
impossible to calculate because the economy cannot move from point D to point C.
Suppose the cost of flying a 200-seat plane for an airline is $100,000 and there are 10 empty seats on a flight. If the marginal cost of flying a passenger is $200 and a standby passenger is willing to pay $300, the airline should
sell the ticket because the marginal benefit exceeds the marginal cost.
You have driven 800 miles on a vacation and then you notice that you are only 15 miles from an attraction you hadn't known about, but would really like to see. In computing the opportunity cost of visiting this attraction you had not planned to visit, you should include
the cost of driving the next 15 miles, but not the cost of driving the first 800 miles.
Mina decides to spend three hours working overtime rather than going to the park with her friends. She earns $20 per hour for overtime work. Her opportunity cost of working is
the enjoyment she would have received had she gone to the park.
A production possibilities frontier is bowed outward when
the rate of trade-off between the two goods being produced depends on how much of each good is being produced.
Consider the production possibilities frontier for an economy that produces only sofas and cars. The opportunity cost of each car is
the slope of the production possibilities frontier, or 3/2 sofas.
Suppose there are only two people in the world. Each person's production possibilities frontier also represents his or her consumption possibilities when
they choose not to trade with one another.
