John is trying to decide how to divide his time between his job as a stocker in the local grocery store, which pays $7 per hour for as many hours as he chooses to work, and cleaning windows for the businesses downtown. He makes $2 for every window he cleans. John is indifferent between the two tasks, and the number of windows he can clean depends on how many hours he spends cleaning in a day, as shown in the table below:Hours PerDay CleaningWindowsTotal Numberof WindowsCleaned0017211314416517A second hour cleaning windows will yield additional earnings of ________.
A. $8
B. $7
C. $14
D. $2
Answer: A
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In 2014, GDP per capita was ________ in the United States than in China, and since 1980, the growth rate of real GDP per capita has been ________ in the United States than in China
A) lower; lower B) higher; lower C) lower; higher D) higher; higher
The marginal revenue curve of a monopolistically competitive firm is
A) downward sloping and above the demand curve. B) downward sloping and below the demand curve. C) identical to the demand curve as there are many small firms in the market. D) perfectly elastic.
Boundary solutions arise when:
A. a good provides a consumer with little value per dollar relative to other alternatives. B. a consumer has a very low level of income. C. indifference curves are convex. D. indifference curves exhibit increasing MRS.