Refer to the information provided in Figure 2.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 2.5Refer to Figure 2.5. The economy is currently at Point B. The opportunity cost of moving from Point B to Point A is the
A. 120 LCD TVs that must be forgone to produce 20 additional OLED TVs.
B. 30 LCD TVs that must be forgone to produce 40 additional OLED TVs.
C. 20 OLED TVs that must be forgone to produce 30 additional LCD TVs.
D. 40 OLED TVs that must be forgone to produce 120 additional LCD TVs.
Answer: C
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If there are 200 physicians per 100,000 population in the United States generally, but over 500 per 100,000 population in San Francisco,
A) physicians are not scarce in San Francisco. B) physicians particularly enjoy living and working in San Francisco, for financial and other reasons. C) residents of San Francisco necessarily need more medical services than the average American. D) there is a shortage of patients in San Francisco. E) there is a surplus of physicians in San Francisco.
When the economy is creating less output than its potential, it means:
A. there are some resources that are unemployed. B. the economy is in an economic boom. C. contractionary policy needs to be enacted. D. governments are likely to reduce their spending.
Suppose a monopolist can charge different prices to different customers, such as doctors charging different prices depending on whether the patient is insured. How will profits and marginal revenue of such a price-discriminating monopolist compare to profits and MR of an ordinary monopolist who must charge all patients the same fee?
A demand curve that is perfectly inelastic is
A. Downward-sloping. B. Upward-sloping. C. Horizontal. D. Vertical.