BMA5001 Managerial Economics Sem I‚ 2012/2013 ANSWER KEYS TO MIDTERM EXAM QUESTION I (4x10 = 40 marks) Choose the most correct answer for each of the following ten multiple choice questions. Note: No explanation is required. Please answer in the order of the questions. 1. Ceteris paribus‚ which of the followings would shift the demand curve for new textbook to the right? a. b. c. d. e. f. An increase in the price of the textbook; An increase in the supply of equivalent used textbooks;
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Version 18 October 2007 Managerial Economics – Concerned with the application of economic principles and methods to the decision making process under conditions of uncertainty. Theory Tools: Micro Economics‚ Statistics‚ Econometrics (OLS) Software and Decision Support Tools: Excel‚ Matlab‚ B34S Goal: Develop a systematic and reproducible decision making strategy. Common Tasks facing a Modern Manager: Whether to lease or buy equipment? How to determine the shape of the cost curve
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neo-Gospel hippie-country documentary‚ “A Poem is a Naked Person” mostly shot at his Grand Lake recording studio. The doc screened at a local vintage theater‚ the Circle Cinema‚ and Leon held court performing at a subsequent sold-out gig at the Hard Rock casino at “The Joint” amphitheater in the area. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/music/leon-russell-q-and-a-circle-cinema-crowd-hears-stories/article_d1b3d18b-eb65-5b0f-9f37-a00c5ee95f31.html) The “Naked” 1973 documentary depicts the reality-distorted
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humans classify animals into different categories than other animals do and that is because humans have passed up other animals and have begun doing things such as domesticating their animals which is something that no other animal has done. The Naked Ape makes people
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Today we watched a video called‚ “Naked Science: Countdown to Impact.” This video focuses on an asteroid that is heading towards Earth in 2008 and the possible effects that an asteroid has when it collides with Earth. October 6‚ 2008‚ for the first time ever‚ an astronomer discovered an asteroid while it was still in space and was also able to follow it all the way up until impact. This astronomer was able to identify that this object in space was in fact an asteroid by using their Catalina Sky Survey
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Quiz 381: General Socio Economic Awareness for Banking Examinations 1.In context with the Banking Industry‚ which among the following was not a promise made by India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Union Budget 2010-11? (A)To provide a sum of Rs.16‚500 crore to ensure that the Public Sector Banks are able to attain a minimum 8 per cent Tier-I capital by March 31‚ 2011 (B)To provide further capital to strengthen the RRBs (C)To give additional banking licenses to private sector players
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David Sedaris is a brilliant writer. He works are hilarious‚ but also have a quality of sadness to them. However‚ at times‚ Sedaris does not create this poignant feeling in his narratives. There are three stories from his book‚ Naked‚ that fail to have this deeper understanding. In A Plague of Tics‚ Sedaris describes his childhood of obsessively and repeatedly licking light switches‚ counting steps‚ touching telephone poles‚ jabbing mailboxes‚ and rocking back and forth‚ not because he wanted
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properties characteristic of the male sex. Characteristics include strength‚ toughness‚ brutality and many more. All of which are the characteristics of the boys who attended The Citadel in hopes of leaving the school as men. Susan Faludi‚ author of The Naked Citadel‚ writes about the problems within the prestigious school‚ the major problem‚ being sexism. The Citadel’s problem can be almost clearly supported by Malcom Gladwell’s Power of Context argument from his book the Tipping Point. The militaristic
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and gender try to conform us to act in a certain way. Culture and society are just two examples of outside factors that try to construct these identity categories upon us. Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi and the article “The Naked Citadel” by Susan Faludi are two pieces of work that help to demonstrate how outside factors attempt to enforce identity categories upon people. Conforming to and resisting identity categories help an individual to gain an identity
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In "The Naked Crowd‚" Jeffery Rosen describes how the 1000 plus people depicted in profiles published in the New York Times’ Portraits of Greif‚ were viewed by many as failed attempts at capturing the personalities of these people. At around 200 words‚ each these profiles were filled with a couple hobbies or quirks in an effort to sum up each person’s life into memorable snippets of information‚ but at the same time removed any complexity of personality from that individual. Rosen then goes on to
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