Question 1The law of demand states that there is a direct relationship between supply and demand.
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Question 2 Equilibrium is a state of balance between supply and demand.
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Question 3 Goods are scarce for both rich and poor.
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Question 4 "The big corporations in this country, like ExxonMobil and GM, have deep pockets and need to be hiring more people." This is a positive statement about economic policy.
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Question 5 The law of supply states that there is a direct relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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Question 6 In the circular flow model, firms own economic resources, and householdsbuy the manufactured products and services.
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Question 7 Households play a dual role of providing the factors of production whilepurchasing the goods and services of firms.
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Question 8 Opportunity cost is the lowest valued benefit that must be sacrificed asthe result of choosing an alternative.
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Question 9 Scarcity denotes that our desire for a good exceeds the amount that isfreely available from nature.
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Question 10 Economics is a social science concerned with satisfying man's unlimitedwants with limited resources.
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Question 11 Joint output of individuals or nations will be maximized when goods areexchanged between parties in accordance with the law of"comparative advantage".
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Question 12 The production possibilities frontier assumes that the level of technologyvaries when applying the model.
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Question 13 Excess demand in the market will cause the price of a product to decline.
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Question 14 Demand is measured on the vertical axis and supply on the horizontalaxis.
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Question 15 A change in quantity demanded is a movement along the same demandcurve.
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Question 16 As globalization and world trade proliferates, individual markets withincountries' economies become more competitive.
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Question 17 Which growth theory compares a subsistence real wage rate to the actual real wage rate?
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Classical growth theory
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Inflation growth theory
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Neoclassical growth theory
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New growth theory
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Question 18 Suppose the working age population in Tiny Town is 100 people. If 25 of these people are NOT in the labor force, the ________ equals ________.
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unemployment rate; 25/100 × 100
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employment rate; 25/75 × 100
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labor force; 75
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labor force; 25/100 × 100
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Question 19 Suppose there is a rise in the real wage rate. As a result, the quantity of labor demanded:
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increases.
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decreases.
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does not change because there is no change in the money wage rate.
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increases only if the price level also decreases.
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Question 20 GDP can be computed as the sum of:
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all sales that have taken place in an economy over a period of time.
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the total expenditures of consumers and business over a period of time.
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the total expenditures of consumption, investment, and government expenditure on goods and services over a period of time.
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the total expenditures of consumption, investment, government expenditure on goods and services, and net exports over a period of time.
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Question 21 The real wage rate equals:
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(100 x (money wage rate/price level)
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(100 x (price level/money wage rate)
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(money wage rate x (price level)
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(money wage + (number of hours worked/(price level)
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Question 22 If the CPI was 121.5 at the end of 2007 and 138.3 at the end of 2008, the inflation rate over these two years was:
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10.2 percent.
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13.8 percent.
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12.2 percent.
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16.8 percent.
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Question 23 A movement along the production function is the result of a change in:
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the quantity of labor.
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technology.
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capital.
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interest rates.
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Question 24 All of the following are part of fiscal policy EXCEPT:
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setting tax rates.
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setting government spending.
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choosing the size of the government deficit.
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controlling the money supply.
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Question 25 Along a production possibilities frontier for real GDP and the quantity of leisure time, as leisure time increases, real GDP: