At the current level of output, a firm's marginal cost equals 16 and marginal revenue equals 10. The firm
A) is producing the profit-maximizing amount.
B) should produce more.
C) should produce less.
D) Not enough information.
C
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Facing choices between beer and pizza, the number of pizzas a consumer would be willing to trade for just one beer is called
a. the marginal value of beer in terms of pizza. b. the marginal value of pizza in terms of beer. c. the demand for beer. d. an undesirable trade.
In the market for crude oil, everything held constant, if rate of interest of simple bank accounts or interest-bearing investments decline, then:
a. the consumption of crude oil declines in the present period. b. the extraction of crude oil will increase today. c. the price of the crude oil in the international market falls in the present period. d. greater research and developments are conducted to locate new sites of crude oil in the present period. e. the extraction of crude oil will fall in the present period.
If the pricing of one firm is partially influenced by what it thinks another firm will do, the two firms are
A) interdependent. B) bundled. C) tied. D) independent.
Refer to Table 2-20. What is Thailand's opportunity cost of producing one pound of rice?
A) 60 wristwatches B) 20 wristwatches C) 5 wristwatches D) 0.05 units of a wristwatch