The price elasticity of demand for gasoline measures the

a. responsiveness of gasoline producers to changes in the quality of gasoline.
b. responsiveness of customers to changes in the price of gasoline.
c. responsiveness of consumer preferences to changes in the quality of gasoline.
d. both a and c above.


B

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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax cut that increases aggregate demand from AD to AD1 will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies. 

A. D; C B. B; C C. B; A D. D; B

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Cindy's Sweaters' production function is shown in the above table. Cindy rents two knitting machines for $30 a day each and hires workers at a wage rate of $40 a day

If Cindy produces 20 sweaters per day, what is her average fixed cost of production? A) $3.00 B) $3.33 C) $8.00 D) $11.00

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How might strict adherence to the Taylor rule discourage demand-pull inflation? How might demand-pull inflation occur, nonetheless?

What will be an ideal response?

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The international poverty line at $1.90 a day at purchasing power parity means that in each country the poverty line is the amount that will allow you to buy a basket of goods equivalent to what $1.90 would buy:

A. in the United States. B. in the richest of the countries that uses the index. C. in the poorest of the countries that uses the index. D. in the average economy of all the countries that use the index.

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