Consumers in a country buy only two goods, sneakers and manicures. The prices and quantities purchased by urban households are in the table above. The reference base year is 2011. For these data, the CPI for 2011 is
A) 110. B) 3. C) 145. D) 160. E) 100.
E
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Salvador grows orchids to sell to local florists. When Salvador began raising his current crop of 1,000 orchids, he could sell them for $20 per plant, and he incurred shipping costs of $3 per plant. His cost of raising orchids is $8 per plant
When his crop was ready to ship, florists were only paying $9 per plant. Use marginal analysis to determine Salvador's best course of action given the drop in the price of orchids.
In the early 1990s Intel produced a 486 microchip for personal computers that contained a math co-processor that increased its speed of performing calculations and other operations
After a time Intel decided to disable the coprocessor on large numbers of their chips before sending them out for shipment and sale. What could have been the motive of Intel to deliberately reduce the quality of some of its chips?
When plasma television sets were first introduced prices were high and few firms were in the market. Later, economic profits attracted new firms and the price of plasma televisions fell. This example illustrates
A) that consumers receive this new technology "free of charge" in the sense that they only have to pay a price for plasma televisions equal to the lowest production cost. B) a decreasing-cost industry. C) an industry with a low minimum efficient scale. D) how fickle consumer demands are.
In the open-economy macroeconomic model, if the supply of loanable funds shifts right
a. the interest rate rises and the demand for dollars in the market for foreign currency exchange shifts right. b. the interest rate rises and the demand for dollars in the market for foreign currency exchange shifts left. c. the interest rate falls and the supply of dollars in the market for foreign-currency exchange shifts right. d. the interest rate falls and the supply of dollars in the market for foreign currency exchange shifts left.