A person earning $25,000 per year needs to travel twenty miles to work. The gasoline tax raised 5 percent. How will this person be affected by this increase compared to another
person who travels twenty miles to work and earns $50,000 per year? Is this a regressive or
progressive tax?

Suppose an economy has only two sectors: goods and services. each year, goods sells 80% of its outputs to services and keeps the rest, while services sells 62% of its output to goods and retains the rest. find equilibrium prices for the annual outputs of the goods and services sectors that make each sector's income match its expenditures.

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?

The – effect means tommy's – will shift because he has less purchasing power. as a result, he may choose the regular-size steak instead of the larger "hunter's portion" he prefers. the – effect means tommy may spend some of the money he saved by ordering the smaller steak to order a bigger salad.