The price elasticity of demand for movies is approximately 1 and 500,000 tickets are sold per day. If the average price of a movie ticket increases by 20 percent, the number of tickets sold each day decreases to ________

A) 400,000
B) 300,000
C) 420,000
D) 475,000


A

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Sam is suing someone in court for $10,000. The probability that Sam will lose the case is 1/h where h is the number of hours that Sam's attorney works on the case

The lawyer charges $500 per hour if he is to be paid hourly, or he requests 20% of the settlement if he is to be paid on a contingency basis. Assuming both Sam and the attorney are risk-neutral wealth maximizers, is either contract efficient?

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This table shows individual demand schedules for a market.



According to the table shown, if the price were $0.50, what will total demand by Betty and Barney be?

A. 18
B. 36
C. 75
D. 47

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A fund whose goal is to invest in economic development and job creation in impoverished areas is a/an ______.

A) impact-investment fund B) community fund C) microlending fund D) inward-focused fund

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