Which of the following is an example of a price floor? A. Safeway charges $1 more than Fred Meyer charges for a 5 pound bag of sugar. B. The lowest price of gasoline this year was $2 per gallon. C. The government guarantees that potato farmers will receive at least $50 a ton. D. Stock prices hit a floor last week.

Based on the supply and demand theory, why do medical doctors earn higher wages than child-care workers?

Experienced problem solvers always consider both the value and units of their answer to a problem. why?

4. understanding different policy options to correct for negative externalities carbon dioxide emissions have been linked to global warming. the following table lists some possible public policies aimed at reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. for each policy listed, identify whether it is a command-and-control policy (regulation), tradable permit system, corrective subsidy, or corrective tax. public policy command-and-control policy tradable permit system corrective subsidy corrective tax the government charges factories $110 for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit. the government orders every factory to adopt a new technology, which reduces carbon-dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. trees take carbon dioxide out of the air and convert it to oxygen, so the government funds a tree-planting initiative by offering $110 to any citizen who plants a tree. the government limits total carbon-dioxide emissions by all factories to 180,000 tons per month. each individual factory is given the right to emit 140 tons of carbon dioxide, and factories may buy and sell these rights in a marketplace.