Sarah spends $100 a year on magazines and ice cream. The table above shows her utility from each good. If the price of a magazine is $5 and the price of ice cream is $5 per gallon, how does Sarah spend the $100?
What will be an ideal response?
Sarah buys 6 magazines and 14 gallons of ice cream. She spends $100 and her marginal utility per dollar from magazines and ice cream is the same, 3.6 units per dollar.
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a. the law of demand. b. the fact that education at the school was an inferior good. c. the fact that people sometimes base perceptions of quality on price (snob effect). d. elastic demand.
What does the GDP gap measure?
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Does the short-run Phillips curve have a positive or negative slope? Explain how this slope is derived
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A business that is owned by one individual is a? __________.
A. master limited partnership B. partnership C. limited liability company D. corporation E. sole proprietorship