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To hire an input, a business owner must pay a price that Select one:

  • A. gives the input owner enough money to buy the assets of the business.
  • B. reflects the business owner's lowest-cost alternative activity.
  • C. matches the best opportunity cost of the input owner.
  • D. covers the transportation cost of the input owner.
  • E. reflects the business owner's best alternative activity. 

C. matches the best opportunity cost of the input owner.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football Club offers discounted tickets through Shopper's Drug Mart. An economist says this is price discrimination because Select one:

  • A. people who shop at Shopper's Drug Mart are more price-sensitive than typical Blue Bombers fans.
  • B. people who shop at Shopper's Drug Mart are less price-sensitive than typical Blue Bombers fans.
  • C. this decreases the number of people who go to the game.
  • D. this increases the cost of operating the new stadium where the Blue Bombers play their games.
  • E. this is efficient. 

A. people who shop at Shopper's Drug Mart are more price-sensitive than typical Blue Bombers fans.

Which will cause an increase in quantity demanded? Select one:

  • A. a rise in the price of the product
  • B. a rise in the price of a substitute product
  • C. an increase in income
  • D. a fall in the price of a complement product
  • E. a fall in the price of the product 

E. a fall in the price of the product
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When a new business enters an industry, Select one:

  • A. the market-clearing price falls.
  • B. economic losses decrease.
  • C. economic profits increase.
  • D. the market-clearing price rises.
  • E. other businesses in the industry exit. 

A. the market-clearing price falls.

Turnips are an inferior good. A rise in the price of turnips, all other factors remaining the same, Select one:

  • A. increases the quantity supplied of turnips.
  • B. increases the supply of turnips.
  • C. decreases the quantity supplied of turnips.
  • D. increases the quantity demanded of turnips.
  • E. decreases the demand for turnips. 

A. increases the quantity supplied of turnips.

Consumer surplus is the Select one:

  • A. the difference between the maximum price consumers are willing and able to pay and the minimum price producers are willing to accept.
  • B. the area under the marginal benefit curve.
  • C. the difference between the maximum price consumers are willing and able to pay and the price actually paid to producers.
  • D. the total amount consumers paid for a product.
  • E. the difference between the amount a producer is willing to accept and the price actually received. 

C. the difference between the maximum price consumers are willing and able to pay and the price actually paid to producers.

Market-driven health care generally Select one:

  • A. is more efficient than equitable health care.
  • B. provides good care to those who can afford it.
  • C. provides little care to those who cannot afford it.
  • D. has few waiting lists.
  • E. does all of the above. 

E. does all of the above.

If a new government regulator successfully gets competitive behaviour from a natural monopolist, we would not expect to see Select one:

  • A. higher output.
  • B. normal profits.
  • C. lower costs.
  • D. lower prices.
  • E. higher prices. 

E. higher prices.

It takes Mom 30 minutes to cook dinner. In the same time, she can iron 6 shirts. Dad takes an hour to cook dinner and 30 minutes to iron a single shirt. Select one:

  • A. Dad has an absolute advantage in cooking.
  • B. Dad should cook dinner; the opportunity cost is only 1 shirt.
  • C. Dad should cook dinner; the opportunity cost is only 2 shirts.
  • D. Dad has an absolute advantage in ironing shirts.
  • E. Mom should cook dinner and iron; trade is impossible. 

C. Dad should cook dinner; the opportunity cost is only 2 shirts.

If buyers expect the price of gasoline will be lower in the future, the price of gasoline today ________ and the quantity supplied today ________. Select one:

  • A. falls; decreases
  • B. rises; increases
  • C. falls; increases
  • D. falls; is unaffected
  • E. rises; decreases 

A. falls; decreases

Products and services that are plentiful and essential will typically have Select one:

  • A. a low total benefit.
  • B. a high marginal benefit.
  • C. few alternatives.
  • D. a high price.
  • E. a low marginal benefit. 

E. a low marginal benefit.

Which is not the main characteristic of market structure? Select one:

  • A. extent of product differentiation
  • B. number of customers
  • C. barriers preventing new entry
  • D. number of competitors
  • E. availability of substitutes 

B. number of customers

When the interest rate is 20 percent, $60 paid at the end of the year has a present value of Select one:

  • A. $5.
  • B. $3.
  • C. $12.
  • D. $50.
  • E. $72. 

D. $50.

For inputs such as land or superstar talent, Select one:

  • A. input and output prices are not related.
  • B. input and output prices are inversely related.
  • C. output prices are determined by input prices.
  • D. input prices are determined by output prices.
  • E. input prices are usually close to zero. 

D. input prices are determined by output prices.

The tragedy of the commons shows Select one:

  • A. how individual self-interest leads to a smart social outcome.
  • B. a sharing socialist economy is better than a market economy.
  • C. a market economy is better than a sharing socialist economy.
  • D. the underuse of a free resource.
  • E. how individual self-interest does not lead to a smart social outcome. 

E. how individual self-interest does not lead to a smart social outcome.

Market income consists of Select one:

  • A. wages, interest, and rent earned in input markets before paying income taxes.
  • B. wages, interest, rent, and profits earned in input markets after paying taxes.
  • C. wages, interest, rent, and profits earned in input markets before paying income taxes.
  • D. wages, interest, and profits earned in input markets before paying taxes.
  • E. wages, rent, and profits earned in input markets before paying taxes.


C. wages, interest, rent, and profits earned in input markets before paying income taxes.

Tina wants to be a rock 'n' roll singer. She cashes in all of her bank accounts that were paying her 5% interest. She takes this $2,000 and spends it to produce a CD. Tina did not quit her day job at Roots. After one year her CD sales had earned $800 in accounting profits. Tina's economic profits are Select one:

  • A. $100.
  • B. $700.
  • C. $900.
  • D. - $1,200.
  • E. $800. 

B. $700.

Which statement is true? Select one:

  • A. Oligopoly demand is more elastic than perfect competition.
  • B. Monopolistic competition pricing power is closer to monopoly than to perfect competition.
  • C. Oligopoly demand is more inelastic than monopoly.
  • D. Monopolistic competition elasticity of demand is closer to perfect competition than to monopoly.
  • E. Monopolistic competition usually has economies of scale. 

D. Monopolistic competition elasticity of demand is closer to perfect competition than to monopoly.

A good economic model Select one:

  • A. includes as much information as possible.
  • B. helps you understand or predict the economic world around you.
  • C. changes many factors at the same time.
  • D. is easier to test than experiments in a laboratory.
  • E. does all of the above 

B. helps you understand or predict the economic world around you.

Sophia works at a strawberry farm that pays her $10 an hour. Her marginal product is 20 cases of strawberries per hour. The farm is selling a case of strawberries for at least Select one:

  • A. $1.
  • B. $20.
  • C. 50 cents.
  • D. $2.
  • E. $10. 

C. 50 cents.

If a 5 percent increase in income causes a 10 percent increase in quantity demanded, what is the income elasticity of demand? Select one:

  • A. 0.5
  • B. -0.5
  • C. 2.0
  • D. -2.0
  • E. 1.5 

C. 2.0

In order to increase sales from 7 units to 8 units, a one-price oligopolist must lower the price from $7 per unit to $6. What is the marginal revenue in this range? Select one:

  • A. $48
  • B. $6
  • C. $1
  • D. - $1
  • E. none of the above 

D. - $1

A Nash equilibrium occurs when

Select one:

  • A. player one has decided to cooperate and player two has decided to cheat.
  • B. both players have no reason to change their choices once they see their opponent's choice.
  • C. each player has a strategy.
  • D. player two has decided to cooperate and player one has decided to cheat.
  • E. both players are too confused to choose.   

B. both players have no reason to change their choices once they see their opponent's choice.

Laryssa buys 40 litres of gasoline a week at $1.00 per litre. When the price rose to $1.50 last summer, she bought only 30 litres a week. Because this 50% increase in price caused a 25% reduction in quantity demanded, Laryssa's demand is ________ and her total expenditure (P × Q) last summer ________. Select one:

  • A. elastic; was lower
  • B. inelastic; was lower
  • C. elastic; was higher
  • D. inelastic; was higher
  • E. elastic; stayed the same 

D. inelastic; was higher

Sue's Sea Shells sold 200 cases of shells last season. Her total costs were $1,000. She sells 300 cases this season. Sue's Sea Shells have economies of scale if her Select one:

  • A. total costs are less than $1,000.
  • B. average total costs are less than $200.
  • C. average total costs are more than $300.
  • D. total costs are less than $1,500.
  • E. average total costs are more than $5. 

D. total costs are less than $1,500.

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