Exam 1: What Is Economics

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Total number of workers Average cost of producing a television set (dollars) 4 125 10 75 13 77 15 85 -Graphing the data in the above table with the number of workers on the horizontal axis and the average cost on the vertical axis, the graph would show

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Suppose that for the past two months, you have studied economics one hour a day. You now decide to study economics two hours a day. For the past two months,____________ .

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Marginal cost is the cost

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Which of the following is a normative statement?

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When the president of the Bank of America addresses Congress regarding lending standards in that industry, he is discussing

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The slope of a straight line is

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Making a choice at the margin means .

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Which of the following is a normative statement?

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You have the choice of going on vacation to Florida for one week, staying at work for the week, or spending the week doing fix-up projects around your house. If you decide to go to Florida, the opportunity cost of the trip is

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The fact that people with higher incomes get to consume more goods and services addresses the Part of one of the two big economic questions.

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Which of the following creates an incentive to increase the amount of an activity?

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Which of the following are considered factors of production used to produce goods and services? I. Land II. Labor III. Capital IV. Entrepreneurship

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Fundamental economic problems basically arise from

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Which of the following is a positive statement?

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If two variables both increase at the same time or decrease at the same time, they are

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  -The above figure reveals -The above figure reveals

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The night before a midterm exam, you decide to go to the movies instead of studying for the exam. You score 60 percent on your exam. If you had studied the night before, youʹd have scored 70 percent. What was the opportunity cost of your evening at the movies?

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A normative statement concerns

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If the quantity of wood purchased decreases when the price of wood rises, a graph representing these variables would have

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In the above figure, if household consumption is positively related to household income, then an increase in household income will

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