Charles loves watching downton abbey on his local public tv station, but he never sends any money to support the station during its fundraising drives. economists would call charles afree rider .true or false: the government can solve the problem caused by people like charles by taxing people who watch the show. truefalsetrue or false: the private market can solve this problem by broadcasting downton abbey on cable tv, since then the good would be excludable and thus no longer a public good.

The gomez company, a merchandising firm, has budgeted its activity for december according to the following information: • sales at $500,000, all for cash. • merchandise inventory on november 30 was $250,000. • the cash balance at december 1 was $20,000. • selling and administrative expenses are budgeted at $50,000 for december and are paid for in cash. • budgeted depreciation for december is $30,000. • the planned merchandise inventory on december 31 is $260,000. • the cost of goods sold represents 75% of the selling price. • all purchases are paid for in cash. the budgeted cash disbursements for december are:

Zapper has beginning equity of $257,000, net income of $51,000, dividends of $40,000 and investments by stockholders of $6,000. its ending equity is

In a transportation minimization problem, the negative improvement index associated with a cell indicates that reallocating units to that cell would lower costs.truefalse