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What is the equation for total revenue?
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Price x Quantity
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What is the equation for marginal revenue?
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Change in Total Revenue/change in Quantity
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What is the equation for marginal cost?
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Change in Total Cost/Change in Quantity
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What is the equation for total cost?
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Total Fixed Costs + Total Variable Costs
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What is the equation for total profit?
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Total Revenue - Total Costs
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What is the equation for marginal profit?
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Marginal Revenue - Total Costs
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What is the primary goal of every business?
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To maximize profit
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What is the first step every business should take in order to reach their primary goal?
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How much they should produce (Quantity)
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What is the general formula that businesses use when deciding how to execute this first step? Why do they use this formula?
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Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost or Marginal Revenue is greater than or equal to Marginal Cost. They use this to determine if they are generating a profit.
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How do perfectly competitive firms determine the price they should charge? Do they have any control over this price?
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Perfectly competitive firms look to the market to determine the price they should charge. They have no control over the price.
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In a perfectly competitive market _____=_____=_____
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P=D=MR
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If the market price for a perfectly competitive good is $15 and suppliers decrease production from 10,000 to 8,000 units, what will happen to marginal revenue?
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Nothing will happen to marginal revenue
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What equation for profit do we generally use when looking at a graph for a firm in a perfectly or monopolistic competitive market?
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P - ATC
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How do monopolistically competitive firms determine the price they should charge? Do they have any control over this price?
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They use MR=MC to find their profit maximizing quantity. They go from this quantity up to the demand curve to see what people are willing and able to pay at that quantity.
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What is the relevant curve to look at when making a decision to shut-down?
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AVC (Average Variable Cost)
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In perfect competition are there barriers to entry?
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No
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How many sellers are there in perfect completion?
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Many
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What is the nature of products in perfect competition?
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Homogeneous (Same)
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Are there barriers to entry in monopolistic competition?
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No
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How many sellers are there in monopolistic competition?
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Many
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What is the nature of products in monopolistic competition?
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Differentiated
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Are there barriers to entry in a monopoly?
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Yes
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How many sellers are there in a monopoly?
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One
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What is the nature of products in a monopoly?
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Heterogeneous (by definition)
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In a labor market, supply and the demand curves are made up of who?
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Supply= workers
Demand= firms
Demand= firms
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Similar to perfectly and monopolistically competitive markets, what equation do firms use to maximize their profits in regards to labor?
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VMPL = wage rate (or VMPL greater than or equal to wage rate)
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The equation for the value of marginal product of labor is:
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P x MPL
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What is the difference between micro and macroeconomics?
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Microeconomics is the study of particular markets and segments of the economy. Macroeconomics
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What does GDP stand for and what does it mean?
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Gross Domestic Product = the value of all FINISHED goods and services produces WITHIN A COUNTRY'S BORDERS in a specific time period
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What is the equation for nominal GDP?
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(PxQ)+(PxQ)
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What is the equation for real GDP?
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Base year's P x current year's Q
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What is the equation for GDP per capita?
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Nominal GDP/population
Real GDP/population
Real GDP/population