Ray's Radios believed the synergies between radio production and battery production could be realized if he expanded. However, due to overseeing the battery expansion Ray devoted less time to the radio business leading to the radio unit costs increasing. At this point, Ray's Radios should
a. Increase production of the batteries
b. Divest itself from the production of the batteries
c. Shut down the production of the batteries
d. None of the above
c
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The above figure shows the market for gasoline. When a hurricane destroys a major refinery that refines oil into gasoline, the
A) demand curve for gasoline shifts from D1 to D2 and the supply curve of gasoline does not shift. B) demand curve for gasoline shifts from D1 to D2 and the supply curve of gasoline shifts from S2 to S1. C) demand curve for gasoline does not shift, and the supply curve of gasoline shifts from S2 to S1. D) demand curve for gasoline does not shift, and the supply curve of gasoline shifts from S1 to S2.
The Economic Report of the President gives the following age distribution of the United States population for the year 2000:
United States Population By Age Group, 2000 Outcome (age category Under 5 5-15 16-19 20-24 25-44 45-64 65 and over Percentage 0.06 0.16 0.06 0.07 0.30 0.22 0.13 Imagine that every person was assigned a unique number between 1 and 275,372,000 (the total population in 2000). If you generated a random number, what would be the probability that you had drawn someone older than 65 or under 16? Treating the percentages as probabilities, write down the cumulative probability distribution. What is the probability of drawing someone who is 24 years or younger? What will be an ideal response?
In the 1945 Alcoa antitrust case, the Court found ALCOA:
a. not guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act because it was a good monopoly. b. did not have a good reason for having a large market share, so found it guilty. c. guilty because its firm size was a per se violation of antitrust laws. d. not guilty because it did not engage in any illegal or unfair acts. e. was no threat to industrial democracy.
A switch from a? pollution-tax policy to a? uniform-reduction policy will shift the supply curve of the polluting product upward and increase the equilibrium price.
A switch from a? pollution-tax policy to a? uniform-reduction policy will shift the supply curve of the polluting product
and
the equilibrium price.