The following question relate to a community that is circular in nature with a one mile circumference. There are 81 people evenly distributed around the lake where the town is built. The travel cost is $10 per mile, a restaurant costs $100 to set up, and the cost per meal is $2. Calculate the optimal number of restaurants without using the graph. Round off small residuals to the nearest whole number. Show your work.
What will be an ideal response?
N* = 
= 
which is approximately 2.
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The table below shows how the payoffs to two political candidates depend on whether the candidates run a positive or negative campaign. The payoffs are given in terms of the percentage change in the number of votes received. 
Running a negative campaign is ________ for the ________ candidate.
A. a dominant strategy; Democratic B. neither a dominant nor dominated strategy; Republican C. a dominated strategy; Democratic D. a dominated strategy; Republican
A market system works very well in solving some basic problems of the economy but it fails in some cases. Provide examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Money serves as a medium of exchange means that
A) it benefits both buyers and sellers. B) it eliminates the need for barter. C) it reduces transaction costs. D) All of the above are correct.
The above figure shows the U.S. market for replacement cell phone batteries. Area E is the
A) producer surplus when there is free trade. B) deadweight loss from tariff. C) tariff revenue. D) increase in producer surplus due to the tariff. E) gain in total surplus due to the tariff.