If 10,000 people are willing to spend a maximum of $20 each to preserve one acre of rainforest, how many acres of rainforest could be preserved, assuming it costs $40 per acre to preserve the rainforest?
a. Zero acres
b. 1,000 acres
c. 5,000 acres
d. 10,000 acres
e. There is not enough information to answer the question
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Ans: c. 5,000 acres
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Suppose Angelo Sessa, owner of Sezz Medi Brick Oven Pizza in NYC, earns $350,000 in revenue per year. He spends $800 a month on ash wood for his stove, $2000 a month on rent, and $1500 a month on ingredients
He used to be a lawyer and earned $240,000 a year before he opened up Sezz Medi. Normal profit for a pizza business is $30,000. What is Angelo's economic profit? A) $28,400 B) $350,000 C) $58,400 D) $268,400
Tastes of individuals are represented by
A) indifference curves. B) production possibility frontiers. C) isovalue lines. D) production functions. E) the terms of trade.
As noted in the text, the major Japanese auto manufacturers agreed to "voluntary" import restrictions that reduced the number of cars they could ship to the U.S. market in the 1980s
One of the key outcomes from this policy is that the Japanese manufacturers were able to: A) focus on more profitable auto markets in other countries. B) raise their prices of autos in the U.S. market and capture higher profit margins on the imported cars. C) cut their costs by more than the import tariff, so profit per auto increased. D) all of the above
The market demand curve is derived by:
a. studying an individual's demand for a product over a year. b. comparing the monthly consumption of a group of people. c. surveying a set of consumers and ascertaining their preferences. d. adding up the quantities that consumers in a market are willing and able to purchase at each price. e. calculating the average price a random sample of consumers are willing to pay for a product.