Michael signs a contract with the Leung family to renovate their basement. Michael completes the work, but the Leungs are not happy with the quality of the painting in the basement bathroom so they refuse to pay the agreed upon amount. What two areas of the contract should outline the detailed expectations of the job and the steps required to settle the dispute?

What is the difference between total utility and marginal utility? a. marginal utility is subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility while total utility is not. b. total utility represents the consumer optimum while marginal utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit. c. total utility is the total amount of satisfaction derived from consuming a certain amount of a good while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming an additional unit of the good. d. marginal utility represents the consumer optimum while total utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit.

You are looking at a one-year loan of $16,500. the interest rate is quoted as 8.7 percent plus two points. a point on a loan is 1 percent (one percentage point) of the loan amount. quotes similar to this one are common with home mortgages. the interest rate quotation in this example requires the borrower to pay two points to the lender up front and repay the loan later with 8.7 percent interest. what rate would you actually be paying here?

Resource x is necessary to the production of good y. if the price of resource x rises, the curve for good y will shift resulting in a(n) in the equilibrium price of y and a(n) in the equilibrium quantity of y. a. supply; leftward; increase; increase b. demand; leftward; decrease; decrease c. supply; rightward; decrease; increase. d. demand; rightward; increase; increase e. supply; leftward; increase; decrease