GDP data (billions of dollars) Indirect business taxes $600
Depreciation 950
Change in business inventories 50
Compensation of employees 5,400
Corporate profits 700
Durable goods 600
Exports 100
Social Security taxes 360
Transfer payments 300
Fixed investment 950
Government spending 800
Imports 150
Net interest 500
Nondurable goods 2,000
Personal taxes 1,000
Rental income 200
Services 4,000
Using the expenditures approach, compute net exports (X-M). Which of the following is correct?
a. $5,178 billion.
b. $6,450 billion.
c. $5,740 billion.
d. $7,740 billion.
e. $8,350 billion.

Which of the following actions is most likely to result in a decrease in the money supply? a. the discount rate on overnight loans is lowered. b. the government sells a new batch of treasury bonds. c. the federal reserve bank buys treasury bonds. d. the required reserve ratio for banks is decreased. 2b2t

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Which statement below best describes george waring's approach to solving the problems of water-borne illness? a. waring is going with his "gut," because he believes that instincts and emotions are the best guides for action. b. waring efficiently and thoroughly lays out the case for why the problems are too large and overwhelming to be solved: people should just move out of cities back to their farms. c. waring has gathered the testimonies of people who live in densely populated areas in order to learn how they themselves have solved their problems. d. waring exhibits the industrial age's increased respect for and reliance on science and the scientific method.