Question 1

Which of the following is an example of a positive statement?

Accepted Answer

A)  Government should not redistribute income. 
B)  Business firms ought to contribute more to charities. 
C)  Households are the primary source of saving. 
D)  The foreign sector should be more tightly controlled.

Question 2

-"As you devote more hours to studying,your GPA increases." A graph of this relationship would show

Accepted Answer

A)  a positive relationship. 
B)  a direct relationship. 
C)  an inverse relationship. 
D)  Both answers A and B are correct.

Question 3

"When OPEC increases the supply of oil to the market,the price of gasoline falls." This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  a normative statement. 
B)  the failure of opportunity cost to determine prices. 
C)  a positive statement. 
D)  a macroeconomic statement.

Question 4

On a graph showing the relationship between x and y,the ceteris paribus condition implies that

Accepted Answer

A)  no other variables are related to x and y. 
B)  the value of x is held constant. 
C)  the value of y is held constant. 
D)  other variables not shown are held constant.

Question 5

Which of the following is a macroeconomic decision or concept?

Accepted Answer

A)  the price of oil 
B)  how many television sets to produce 
C)  the unemployment rate for the entire economy 
D)  the unemployment rate for each firm

Question 6

What is the difference between positive and normative statements?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

The United States produces more services than goods.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Explain what entrepreneurship is and why it is considered a factor of production.

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Which of the following is a macroeconomic issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  How a rise in the price of sugar affects the market for sodas. 
B)  How federal government budget deficits affect interest rates. 
C)  What determines the amount a firm will produce. 
D)  The cause of a decline in the price of peanut butter.

Question 10

In economics,the term "land" means

Accepted Answer

A)  only land that is used in agricultural production. 
B)  land, mineral resources, and nature's other bounties. 
C)  land that is devoted to economic pursuits. 
D)  land used for agricultural and urban purposes.

Question 11

When firms in an economy start producing more computers and fewer televisions,they are answering the ________ part of one of the two big economic questions.

Accepted Answer

A)  "when" 
B)  "for whom" 
C)  "what" 
D)  "where"

Question 12

-What does the slope of the line shown in the above figure equal?

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

-The relationship between income and consumption illustrated in the figure above is

Accepted Answer

A)  positive and linear. 
B)  positive and nonlinear. 
C)  negative and linear. 
D)  negative and nonlinear.

Question 14

If Taco Bell decides to produce more tacos and fewer burritos,Taco Bell is answering the ________ part of one of the two big economic questions.

Accepted Answer

A)  "what" 
B)  "why" 
C)  "when" 
D)  "scarcity"

Question 15

As an economic concept,scarcity applies to

Accepted Answer

A)  both money and time. 
B)  money but not time. 
C)  time but not money. 
D)  neither time nor money.

Question 16

When a textile company keeps track of its inventory using a computer and its competitor uses a pad of paper and a pencil,they are both answering the ________ part of one of the two big economic questions.

Accepted Answer

A)  "what" 
B)  "how" 
C)  "for whom" 
D)  "where"

Question 17

The economic resource that organizes the use of other economic resources is called

Accepted Answer

A)  labor. 
B)  capital. 
C)  entrepreneurship. 
D)  land.

Question 18

Marginal cost is the

Accepted Answer

A)  cost of an increase in an activity. 
B)  total cost of an activity. 
C)  cost of an activity minus the benefits of the activity. 
D)  cost of all forgone alternatives.

Question 19

Suppose that you are spending two hours a day studying economics,and your grade is 85 percent.You want a higher grade and decide to study for an extra hour a day.As a result,your grade rises to 90 percent.Your marginal benefit is the

Accepted Answer

A)  5 point increase in your grade minus the opportunity cost to you of spending the hour studying. 
B)  extra hour per day you spend on studying. 
C)  5 point increase in your grade. 
D)  three hours per day you spend on studying.

Question 20

The relationship in the above figure suggests that when the interest rate is 5 percent,

Accepted Answer

A)  a decrease in income will be associated with a decrease in expenditures. 
B)  a decrease in income will be associated with an increase in expenditures. 
C)  an increase in income will be associated with a decrease in expenditures. 
D)  there is no relationship between expenditures and income.

Exam 1: What Is Economics