When a price changes, consumers have an incentive to consume less of the good with a relatively higher price and more of the good with a relatively lower price. What is this an explanation for? A) Demand Effect

B) Supply Effect

C) Income Effect

D) Substitution Effect

Question 37 (1 point)
A higher price means that, in effect, the buying power of income has been reduced, even though actual income has not changed. What is this the explanation for?

A) Income Effect

B) Supply Effect

C) Substitution Effect

D) Demand Effect

Question 38 (1 point)
If Australia holds an absolute advantage in didgeridoos and Japan holds an absolute advantage in katana blades, both countries could be made better off if they specialize in those respective goods and trade.

True
False
Question 39 (1 point)

We must learn to ignore sunk costs when making decisions.
True
False

Question 40 (1 point)

Allocative efficiency takes place at every point along the production possibilities frontier.

True
False

Consider the following scenarios. use what you have learned to decide if the goods and services being provided are individual, public, or merit goods. for each case, state what kind of good has been described and explain your answer using the definitions of individual, public, and merit goods. (6 points each) 1. from your window, you can see a city block that's on fire. you watch city firefighters rescue people and battle the flames to save the buildings. 2. while visiting relatives, you learn that your cousins attend a nearby elementary school that is supported financially by local property tax revenue. 3. you see a squadron of military jets flying overhead. 4. you find out that your aunt works for a defense manufacturing company that has several defense contracts with the government. she tells you that she works for a team that is producing a communications satellite. 5. your class visits a local jail run by a private, profit-making company that detains county criminals and is paid with tax revenue.

Problem page a medical equipment industry manufactures x-ray machines. the unit cost c (the cost in dollars to make each x-ray machine) depends on the number of machines made. if x machines are made, then the unit cost is given by the function =cx+−0.3x2126x31,935 . how many machines must be made to minimize the unit cost?

As a result of a labeling mistake at the chemical factory, a farmer accidentally sprays weedkiller rather than fertilizer on half her land. as a result, she loses half of her productive farmland. if the property of diminishing returns applies to all factors of production, she should expect to seea. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. b. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. c. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor. d. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor.