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An entrepreneur creates a product that costs $25 to make, but no customer is willing to pay more than $15. Was there value created?
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Yes
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A firm lowers its cost of production from $40 per unit to $30 unit, yet continues to sell the good at the same price. Did this move create any more value for the customer?
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No
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What unique value proposition did Quizno's subs offer when they entered the market? Did this prove to be a sustainable strategy
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baked subs, not sustainable
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If someone buys a product but never actually uses it, is value being created?
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Yes
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When output increases and total profit increases, marginal profit must be:
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positive
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At its current output level, a firm's marginal profit is negative. Therefore, it should:
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reduce output bc MR<MC
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A decrease in fixed costs implies that
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Neither marginal revenue nor marginal cost will change.
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The price elasticity of demand for electricity is
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inelastic
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When the price of smart phones decreases, the demand for data plans will:
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increase
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Is "ladies night" at a bar (where ladies pay no cover) a form of price discrimination?
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yes
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A campus survey asks senior students if they would support a 3-year plan to upgrade the cafeterias at a given cost. What pitfall does this survey exhibit?
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Sample bias
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If all of the price-quantity demanded observations lie exactly on a predicted equation line, the value of the sum of squared errors (SSE) will be:
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0
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If the sample coefficient of determination (R2) is 0.80, this means that:
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80 percent of the variation in the dependent variable is explained by the regression.
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If the coefficient for a variable is -6.78 and the standard error is 2.20, is the coefficient statistically significant?
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yes
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True or false: a variable representing the age of a person in years is a dummy variable.
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false
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Errors in forecasting are caused by all of the following EXCEPT:
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using a large sample of past observations for the regression.