Question: A genealogical firm called Roots produces its output using only one input. Its production function is f(x) = vx. (a) Does the firm have increasing, constant, or decreasing returns to scale? (b) How many units o ...
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Question: Virtually all purchases of consumer nondurable goods do not involve extended credit terms. Yet that component of GDP exhibits a very marked cyclical pattern, always turning down during recessions. Can these dec ...
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Question: The state of Colorado requires oil and gas companies who use fracking techniques to return the land to its original condition after the oil and gas extractions. Table 12.9 shows the total cost and total benefit ...
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Question: Linear Supply & Demand Functions and Equilibrium Point a) A company is willing to supply 120 clocks at a price of $80 each, but only 80 clocks at a price of $40 each. What is the Supply Function (price as a fun ...
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Question: Until recently Marie worked as an program manager, earning $45,000 annually. Then she opened a Peruvian restaurant downtown. At the end of the first year, her books showed total revenues of $200,000 and total c ...
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Question: Consumer's Problem Ed is a programmer, who has preferences over the consumption good and leisure given by U(C, l) = Cl. He needs to use at least 8 hours a day for sleep, eating, etc., but he can in principle wo ...
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Question: On July 5, 1884, Dudley, Stephens, and Brooks - "all able-bodied English seamen" - and a teenage English boy were cast adrift in a lifeboat following a storm at sea. They had no water with them in the boat, and ...
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Question: Consider a firm that makes plastic cups. It produces the cups using two inputs: metal molds and plastic pellets that are melted and injected into the molds. The firm only needs one metal mold to produce any num ...
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Question: The demand for boobles can be written as: Q = 11,000 - 8P. 1. Calculate the price, quantity, total revenue and marginal revenue when the elasticity of demand = -2.2. 2. Calculate the price, quantity, total reve ...
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Question: Consider the following two scenarios: In Scenario A, you share an office with two women. Every morning, they spend a few minutes discussing intimate details of their sex lives. In Scenario B, you attend the off ...
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