Knowing that the demand for wheat is inelastic, if all farmers voluntarily did not plant wheat on 10 percent of their land, then
a. consumers of wheat would buy more wheat.
b. wheat farmers would suffer a reduction in their total revenue.
c. wheat farmers would experience an increase in their total revenue.
d. the demand for wheat would decrease.
c
You might also like to view...
To sell an extra unit of output, a perfectly competitive firm ________, and an imperfectly competitive firm ________.
A. need not alter its price; must lower its price B. must hope the market price falls; must lower its price C. must lower its price; must lower its price D. need not alter its price; need not alter its price
An autonomous depreciation of the U.S. dollar makes American goods ________ relative to foreign goods and results in a ________ in U.S. net exports, everything else held constant
A) cheaper; decline B) cheaper; rise C) more expensive; decline D) more expensive; rise
Positive externalities are created when
A) other consumers reduce their demand for coffee and price thereby declines. B) farmers spray pesticide in their fields and it washes into the local river after the first rainstorm. C) your neighbor plants beautiful trees and flowers in her yard. D) you purchase the "Mona Lisa" and lock it in a vault.
The nominal, effective exchange rate is the:
a. Nominal, effective exchange rate adjusted for a nation's price level relative to many foreign countries' prices. b. Value of one currency in terms of another currency. c. Weighted-average value of a currency relative to many foreign currencies. d. Nominal, bilateral exchange rate adjusted for the international price levels of the two countries.