Consider the following game. You roll a six-sided die and each time you roll a 6, you get $30. For all other outcomes you pay $6. Since the expected value of this game is $0, the game is called a(n)
A. fair bet.
B. even game.
C. zero sum game.
D. gamble.
Answer: A
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After eating four slices of pizza, you are offered a fifth slice for free. You turn down the fifth slice. Your refusal indicates that the
A. marginal utility for four pizza slices is negative. B. marginal utility is positive for the fourth slice and negative for the fifth slice. C. marginal utility for the fourth slice is the largest among all slices. D. total utility for five pizza slices is negative.
If a country must decrease current consumption to increase the amount of capital goods it produces today, then it must
A) be using resources inefficiently today, but will be more efficient in the future. B) be producing along the production possibilities frontier today and its production possibilities frontier will shift outward if it produces more capital goods. C) must be producing outside the production possibilities frontier and will continue to do so in the future. D) must not have private ownership of property and will have to follow planning authorities' decisions today and in the future.
If output more than doubles when all inputs are doubled, production is said to occur under conditions of
A) increasing returns to scale. B) imperfect competition. C) intraindustry trade. D) interindustry trade.
American citizens planning a vacation abroad that would require foreign currency would welcome:
A. Devaluation of the dollar. B. Appreciation of the dollar. C. Depreciation of the dollar. D. Appreciation of the foreign currency.