Interest-rate increases have a impact on the residential home construction industry and a effect on industries that produce consumer necessities such as prescription drugs or basic grocery items. a. positive; negligibleb. negative; negligiblec. negative; positived. positive; negative

B. Negative, Negligible

Explanation:

Interest Rate is negatively related to Investment. Higher Interest Rate increases cost of investment, lower interest rate reduces cost of investment.

However, Investment in a particular sector/ industry is also defined by: Concentration of that sector in entire investment outlay & Income Elasticity of the sector's commodity demand. Implicatively, a sector with huge concentration of investment outlay & products with high income elasticity will have more Interest rate sensitive Investment and vice versa.

Construction Industry being very capital intensive has higher investment magnitude & also more Income Elastic demand. So, impact of higher interest rate will impact this industry more.

Necessity goods Industries are less capital intensive , investment concentrated & also have less Income Elastic Demand. So, impact of higher interest rate will impact this industry less.

(Demand's Income Elasticity is the responsiveness of a good's demand to change in Income. It is more in luxurious goods, less in necessity goods)

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.

answer utilities; more money you have to pay out ; )