All changes saved 1. Based on what you learned in this lesson, match the following terms to their correct definitions:
1. Microeconomics
a. The study of individual economic actors. For example: how individuals,
households, or businesses interact economically
2. Scarcity
b. What must be given up in order to gain something else
3. Economics
C. The limited amount of necessary or desired resources
4. Macroeconomics
d. The study of large economic systems and how their decisions affect issues
such as unemployment, price, and trade
5. Incentive
e. Whatever makes a person act or choose
f. The study of how a society manages its scarce resources
6. Opportunity Cost

Atlas manufacturing produces a unique valve, and has the capacity to produce 50,000 valves annually. currently atlas produces 40,000 valves and is thinking about increasing production to 45,000 valves next year. what is the most likely behavior of total manufacturing costs and unit manufacturing costs given this change? a. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will also increase. b. total manufacturing costs will stay the same and unit manufacturing costs will stay the same. c. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will decrease. d. total manufacturing costs will increase and unit manufacturing costs will stay the same.

The lee family is looking to buy a house in one of two suburban areas just outside of a major city, and air quality is a top priority for them. overall air quality is calculated by taking measures in 100 locations within each suburb and then calculating a measure of central tendency. in one suburb, there is a major bus station that creates very poor air quality at its location but has no impact in the surrounding parts of the suburb. in this situation, which measure of overall suburb air quality would be most useful?

True tomato inc. makes organic ketchup. to promote its products, this firm decided to make bottles in the shape of tomatoes. to accomplish this, true tomato worked with its bottle manufacture to create a set of unique molds for its bottles. which of the following specialized assets does this example demonstrate? (a) site specificity (b) research specificity (c) physical-asset specificity (d) human-asset specificity