ST ANDREW’S JUNIOR COLLEGE H1 ECONOMICS (8819) JC1 Promotional Examinations Revision Package 2011 Contents Section A: Case Studies 1. 2007 TPJC Prelims H1 Paper CSQ1: China’s Water Woes 2. 2007 GCE A-Level Paper H1 CSQ1: International Tourism (covered in Lecture) 3. 2008 CJC Prelims H1 Paper CSQ1: The Illegal Drug Market 4. 2009 RVHS Year 5 End of Year Exams Paper CSQ1: Challenges of the Agricultural Sector Section B: Essays 1. 2006 SAJC H1 Final Exams: Application of Demand and Supply
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“In the first quarter of 2010‚ the market for private homes in Singapore saw a record breaking prices and transaction volumes‚ prompting calls for government intervention to cool the market.” Using economic analysis‚ explain the reasons for the “record breaking prices and transaction volumes” for private homes in Singapore. Private homes in Singapore seeing a record breaking prices and transaction volumes is due to the actions of both the consumers and the producers‚ which will cause a shift in
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Tutorial Questions Introduction to Economics and Macroeconomics Discussion Questions 1 Explain why both nations with high living standards and nations with low living standards face the problem of scarcity. If you won $1 million in a lottery‚ would you escape the scarcity problem? You would not escape the scarcity problem even if you won $1 million in a lottery because the problem of scarcity will always be present. There will always be unlimited wants that cannot be satisfied due to limited
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MGT 405 1. (10 pts) Because a government subsidy increases the number of mutually beneficial trades‚ it increases social welfare. Uncertain. A Subsidy is like an inverse tax. Consumers and producers benefit. The demand curve shifts down shifting the equilibrium‚ lower price for consumers and greater quantity sold for producers. Consumer surplus rises and producer surplus rises (area under the new price they receive). However the welfare is the sum of the new consumer surplus and the producer
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Questions 2. Assume a monopolist faces a market demand curve P = 100 – 2Q‚ and has the short-run total cost function C = 640 + 20Q. What is the profit-maximizing level of output? What are profits? Graph the marginal revenue‚ marginal cost‚ and demand curves‚ and show the area that represents deadweight loss on the graph. 3. In question 2‚ what would price and output be if the firm priced at socially efficient (competitive) levels? What is the magnitude of the deadweight loss caused by monopoly
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Milestone Two: Supply and Demand Conditions and Price Elasticity of Demand Jason Strawbridge Microeconomics 201 April‚ 5 2015 ` Hewlett-Packard is the world’s largest technology company‚ it provides numerous products‚ software solutions and services to private and business consumers of all sizes. Their customers also includes government‚ health and education sectors. Their operations are divided into seven different divisions‚ Hewlett Packard offers products for personal computing‚
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. (TCO 1) The general concern of economics is with the study of the (Points : 1) | degree of competition in stock and bond markets in the economy. efficient use of limited productive resources to satisfy economic wants. issue of equality in the distribution of income and wealth among households. budget deficits in the domestic economy and trade deficits in the international economy. | 2. (TCO 1) The term scarcity in economics
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MS 3229 2012/2013 SEMESTER ONE – CLASS TEST DEWT/ DCEB 2FT - ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 2 Time Allowed: 30 mins Instructions To Candidates: 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 1. All the SP exam rules are to be complied with. A ‘mathematical formulae and tables’ card is provided. All non-exact answers are to be corrected to 3 significant figures All answers are to be written in the answer booklet provided. Answer ALL the THREE questions. The level of pollution (measurements y in coded units) in a city and the corresponding
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ECO 5305 Final Exam Answers underlined in yellow 1. Fixed costs include: a. variable labor expenses. b. output-related energy costs. c. output-related raw material costs. d. variable interest costs for borrowed capital. 2. Marginal cost equals: a. average variable cost at its maximum point. b. the change in total fixed cost divided by the change in quantity. c. the change in total variable cost divided by the change in quantity. d. total cost divided by quantity
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The Haymarket Riot of 1886. In May 4‚ 1886 the Haymarket riot in the police clashed violent whit militant anarchists and labor movement protesters in Chicago. The strong public and state reaction against the Haymarket protesters has been palled the first red scare in U.S history. The Haymarket Riot grew out of labor unrest that had been brewing since the 1870. The different working
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