The price elasticity of demand for Rosie's Roses fresh flowers the week of Valentine's Day is 1.10 and is 1.60 other days of the year. If Rosie's Roses faces a constant marginal cost of $0.75 per rose, what is the profit-maximizing off-peak load price to charge on days not on the week of Valentine's Day?

A) $2.00 B) $5.00 C) $8.50 D) $1.25


A) $2.00

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A) creating new jobs to hire workers who lost their jobs because of NAFTA. B) setting aside funds to support and retrain workers who lost their jobs because of NAFTA. C) reducing tariffs. D) imposing quotas.

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With downward-sloping monetary policy and IS curves,the aggregate demand curve is

A) downward sloping. B) flat. C) vertical. D) upward sloping.

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The power of the supply and demand model lies in its ability

A) to generally predict how price and quantity will change with supply and demand shocks. B) to precisely predict the impact of government regulations on quantity and price. C) to precisely determine the difference between price ceilings and price floors. D) to generally predict how profit motive impacts the distribution of goods and services.

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If a bank has $1 million in demand deposits, $350,000 in reserves, and faces a 30 percent reserve requirement, the amount of money that a bank could initially create by loaning out their excess reserves is: a. $50,000

b. $300,000. c. $350,000. d. $700,000.

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