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Watched football instead of studying and chose to because...
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...the economic surplus of football>the economic surplus of studying
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Beach value is $5000 and costs $3500, lake value is $4500 and costs $1000, mountain value is $2000 and costs $1500, so what is the economic surplus from attending the "best" option as opposed to next best alternative?
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$2000
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Zaxby's is $8 and willingness to pay is $15 and value of packing is $5, so what is the economic surplus?
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ES=15-(8+5)=$2
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Non-refundable fee=$400 for 150 meals and what is marginal costs of 100th meal?
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MC=$0 (because TC=400-400=0)
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What happens to supply if price increases?
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Supply will not change
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What is a fair trade between Taylor and Beau for the dishes and laundry?
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1 dish for 5/12 of a laundry
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If he divides time between fishing and selling printers and he can increase fish, but has to decrease selling printers, what type of point is it?
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Efficient point
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Patrick can do 1 dish=8 burgers and Tim can do 1 dish=10 burgers...
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Tim has comparative advantage in burgers and Patrick has comparative advantage in sides
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Which factor contributes to a perfect market?
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Strawberries are a standardized good
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If PB&J are compliments and the PB price increases, then...
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...demand for jelly will decrease
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A decrease in price of Coke will likely cause...
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...a decrease in demand for Pepsi
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New technology that increases the production of cereal will cause...
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...an increase of supply
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What happens to demand if the price increases?
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Demand will not change
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If the milk price goes up, and the demand for cookies goes down, then...
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...they are compliments
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A binding price floor in a market causes...
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...surplus
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When elasticity<1, it is inelastic...
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...because %quantity changes less than %price changes
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What markets should you subsidize?
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Elastic markets with positive externalities
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Invisible hand
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when individuals act in self interest
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Brody: 1T=11F
Cruze: 1T=10F
Cruze: 1T=10F
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Brody has comparative advantage in flowers and Cruze has absolute advantage in both
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1 attack=5 crimes
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1 crime=1/5 attack
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Price floor at $1 doesn't change anything, so...
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...deadweight lost=$0
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10% decrease in price of widgets and 5% decrease in quantity demanded of clobbers means they are...
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...compliments
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If the income increases and less chicken is bought, then what type of good was the chicken?
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inferior good
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If you tax consumers, then you shift the demand curve, but the most...
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...inelastic group pays more, so producers bear the tax incidence
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If you eat 5 zebra cakes, and he CHOOSES to eat a 6th, then...
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...his total utility will increase from the 6th cake
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What would cause Jason's budget constraint to shift from C to B?
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none of the options
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What is the pure Nash equilibrium?
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Shirk, Shirk (-2,-1)
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Marginal revenue=$5
Marginal cost=$8
Average total cost=$10
Average variable cost=$4
What should the firm do?
Marginal cost=$8
Average total cost=$10
Average variable cost=$4
What should the firm do?
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1.) exit the market in the long run
2.) decrease production until marginal cost=marginal revenue
2.) decrease production until marginal cost=marginal revenue
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If the graph is perfectly competitive with a price of $10...
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...the firm's revenue is $40 because they should produce 4 items