The tobacco industry is a prime example to consider when talking about price elasticity of demand. While nicotine use can be addictive for many users, it is not addictive for the so-called "social smokers". What can we s ...
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Consider: C(y) = y^2+ 2y + 4. Many firms have access to this technology, in fact so many that there is not room for all to profitably operate in the industry. The market demand for the product is given by P = 30-Y , wher ...
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Each of the following lists has an average of 50. For which one is the spread of the numbers around the average biggest?smallest? a. 0, 20, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100 b. 0, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 100 c. 0, 1, 2, 50, 98, 99, 100 Gu ...
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Discuss and provide application of concepts of supply and demand by identifying two goods and two services you consume at the household or professional level. For each example, you will identify a demand-shifting factor ...
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A manufacturer claims that their calculators are 6.800 inches long. A random sample of 39 of their calculators finds they have a mean of 6.812 inches with a standard deviation of 0.03 inches. At α=0.08, can you support t ...
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Question 1 (CO6) From a random sample of 68 businesses, it is found that the mean time that employees spend on personal issues each week is 4.9 hours with a standard deviation of 0.35 hours. What is the 95% confidence in ...
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Model this situation using a game table. Hawk and Dove: Two animals are fighting over some prey. Each can be passive or aggressive. Each prefers to be aggressive if the other is passive, and passive if the other is agg ...
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A manager has a utility function U = C 0.5 if she doesn't work hard and U = C 0.5 - 3 if she does. Expected profit will increase from 1,000 to 1,500 if she works hard. The manager receives compensation C equa ...
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Let X denote the number of spots on a single throw of a fair 6-sided die. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of X. If you can, relate the mean and variance to the mean and variance. the possible values on th ...
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Suppose that Third National Bank has reserves of $20,000 and check able deposits of $200,000. The reserve ratio is 10 percent. The bank sells $20,000 in securities to the Federal Reserve Bank in its district, receiving a ...
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