Refer to the table below. What sum of money should be deposited today in an account that earns 3 percent interest to make each of the five payments above and, when the last payment is made, there will be no money left in the account?



The above table shows a 5 year payment plan. Each payment is made at the end of the year, so after one year, a payment of $1,000 is made, after two years another payment of $1,500 is made and so on. The interest rate is 3 percent.



A) $9,886.70

B) $9,912.56

C) $11,000.00

D) $9,723.45


A) $9,886.70

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A) Microeconomics is descriptive, whereas macroeconomics is advisory. B) Microeconomics primarily deals with positive analysis, whereas macroeconomics primarily deals with normative analysis. C) Microeconomics deals with a small part of the economy, whereas macroeconomics deals with aggregate economic performance. D) Microeconomics describes what economic agents actually do, whereas macroeconomics describes what economic agents ought to do.

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If OPEC increases its price of oil, and still the demand for oil decreases by a very small amount, we can conclude that the demand for oil is

A) relatively elastic. B) relatively inelastic. C) perfectly elastic. D) perfectly inelastic.

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Refer to the table below. If Fresh Laundry is currently producing 2 quality units, to maximize profit, Fresh Laundry should ________ the number of quality units as the current quality marginal revenue is ________ than its marginal cost.


Fresh Laundry is a firm that produces laundry detergent. The table above summarizes Fresh Laundry's product quality marginal revenue and marginal cost at various quality levels.

A) increase; greater
B) decrease; greater
C) increase; less
D) decrease; less

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