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Compute nominal GDP in each year. By what percentage did nominal GDP increase between Year 1 and Year 2? How has real GDP changed from Year 1 to Year 2?
Calculate and illustrate on your graph the opportunity cost of building one hospital. What is the cost of producing a second hospital? Why might the opportunity cost be rising?
Suppose in problem 3 that a second worker became available. Illustrate the resulting change in production possibilities. Now what would be the opportunity cost of sanding two floors?
Assume that it takes four hours of labor time to paint a room and three hours to sand a floor. If all 24 hours were spent painting, how many rooms could be painted by one worker?
Select one of the following economic concerns to research: Quantities of specific goods and services, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Unemployment, Inflation
Using the concept of the multiplier explain why mass lay-offs by large companies such as Boeing or General Motors are a concern to the citizens and leaders where those firms are located.
Why do long-run elasticities of demand differ from short-run elasticities? Consider two goods: paper towels and televisions.
The supply of diodes is P=30+Q/5. The demand for diodes is P=90-Q. Find the equilibrium price, quantity, revenues, producer surplus, production costs, consumer surplus, and total gains from trade.
Then he thinks about increasing the amount of wheat that he grows. What is the opportunity cost, in bushels of corn, of the first bushel of wheat that he grows?
That is allegedly free or priceless and use the concepts of accounting costs, economic costs, explicit costs, implicit costs, opportunity costs and sunk costs to explain why it is neither priceless
Express the retailers monthly profit from the sale of the cameras as a function of the selling price. Estimate the optimal selling price.
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Sketch the supply curve the demand curve. Be sure to indicate the equilibrium wage and demand for labor in the diagram. Calculate the equilibrium wage and labor demand.
They face an upward sloping supply curve for labor given by w=L + 50 and the MEL=2L + 50. How many workers will they hire and what wage will the players be paid?
On the diagram label the wage and employment level that will maximize Berk's profit, Wm and Lm. What is the wage rate and level of employment?
Is this a monopoly or perfectly competitive firm in the goods market? How do you know? Calculate the MRP for this firm.
If the output price received for each game is $20, write an expression for the league's marginal revenue product.
The market for Caf Fiend's employees is perfectly competitive, with an equilibrium wage of $80 per worker per day. As a profit maximizing firm, how many workers will Caf Fiend hire?
Is this a monopoly or perfectly competitive firm in the goods market? Explain? Calculate the MRP for this firm and fill in the table above.
Suppose that the expenditure multiplier is 2.5 and the Treasury increases the government purchase of goods and services by 10 billion units. What will be the resulting change in the real GDP?
Paradoxically, retail trade associations frequently support the laws. Discuss the reasons why merchants' supporting these laws.
Suppose new suppliers enter the market due to the increase in demand, so that the new supply curve is Q = -500 + 10P. What is the new equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity?
If the company produced 100,000 units of goods, what would be its average variable cost? What would be its marginal cost of production?
Compute the average variable cost, average cost, and marginal cost for each function. Plot them on a graph (use values 1,2,3...up to 10 for Q).
Determine the point at which diminishing returns occur. Indicate the points that delineate the three stages of production.