If your cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) after two years of college is 3.0, and your grades for the current semester average 3.5, what will happen to your cumulative GPA? Explain the similarity of this example to the case of marginal cost and average cost.
What will be an ideal response?
If the current semester’s GPA is above the cumulative, then the cumulative GPA will rise. By the same token, if the firm’s marginal cost is above the average cost, the average cost will rise and if MC is below AC, the latter will be falling.
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A) usefulness of a product. B) utility that a person receives from the consumption of goods and services. C) change in utility that results from a one-unit change in the quantity of a good consumed. D) change in utility that results from a one-unit change in the price of a good consumed.
Cassie's Quilts alters, reconstructs, and restores heirloom quilts. Cassie has just spent $800 purchasing, cleaning, and reconstructing an antique quilt which she expects to sell for $1,500 once she is finished
After having spent $800, Cassie discovers that she would need some special period fabric that would cost her $200 in material and time in order to complete the task. Alternatively, she can sell the quilt "as is" now for $900. What is her marginal benefit if she sells the quilt "as is" now? A) $100 B) $900 C) She makes a marginal loss of $600, not a marginal benefit. D) The marginal benefit cannot be determined.
If tablets have an absolute price elasticity of 1, the demand for tablets is
A) unit elastic. B) inelastic. C) perfectly elastic. D) elastic.
Refer to the information provided in Figure 1.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 1.5Refer to Figure 1.5. As income increases, consumption increases, but for each additional increase in income, consumption increases by a larger and larger amount. If consumption is graphed on the vertical axis and income is graphed on the horizontal axis, the relationship between consumption and income would look like which of the following Panels?
A. A B. B C. C D. D