A consumer has two basic choices in making a trip: rent a car for $30.00 a day and spend two days of travel to the destination, or spend $400 for an airplane ticket and fly to the destination in two hours. The marginal utilities of the car rental and the airline ticket are the same. The consumer values time at $5 an hour. The rational consumer will most likely:
A. Rent a car
B. Buy an airline ticket
C. Find the full cost of the two modes to be equal
D. Not make the trip
A. Rent a car
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Winnie's Car Wash is a perfectly competitive firm. The table above shows Winnie's total product schedule. If the price of a car wash is $5, what is the value of marginal product of the second worker?
A) $100 B) $20 C) $30 D) $125
A worker supplies labor to the market if the
A) wage is less than the reservation wage. B) wage is greater than the reservation wage. C) minimum wage is less than the reservation wage. D) demand for labor exceeds the supply of labor.
Discounting is the process whereby
A) present values are adjusted to their future value, using the interest rate. B) future values are converted to their value today, using the interest rate. C) product prices are reduced (discounted) to increase sales and profits today. D) future values are adjusted for inflation.
The opportunity cost of an action is
a. the monetary payment the action required. b. the total time spent by all parties in carrying out the action. c. the value of the best opportunity that must be sacrificed in order to take the action. d. the cost of all alternative actions that could have been taken, added together.