ASSIGNMENT 1‚ March 7 ECO202 Exercise 1. Multiple choice questions 1. Economists normally assume that the goal of a firm is to a. | maximize its total revenue. | b. | maximize its profit. | c. | minimize its explicit costs. | d. | minimize its total cost. | 2. Trevor’s Tire Company produced and sold 500 tires. The average cost of production per tire was $50. Each tire sold for a price of $65. Trevor’s Tire Company’s total costs are a. | $7‚500. | b. | $25‚000. | c
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To what extent were the Agenda 21 goals achieved in Hannover and its surroundings? https://maps.google.de/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=hannover+map&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47b00b514d494f85:0x425ac6d94ac4720‚Hanover&gl=de&ei=ZjmwUb7MLsfSPJqOgdAI&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA Hannover is the capital of the Lower Saxony‚ Germany. It was created in 1946. It has a population of 516.000 people and is therefore the largest city in the state. In the year 1995 Hannover decided to join
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Microeconomics Week 4 Homework Chapter 6: #4 An explicit cost is the monetary payment a firm must make to an outsider to obtain a resource. An implicit cost is the monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market. Say you owned a deli shop. Examples of explicit costs would be the salaries of your employees‚ the cost of the building (electricity‚ plumbing‚ etc.) and all the different ingredients and foodstuffs you need to
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ES2550 Microeconomics - OL2-MAR1813 Project Part 1 [Author name] [Date] Barnes & Noble books which Estimated Elasticity is -4.00 which I believe is elastic because it has a value greater than 1 decrease in quantity demanded is proportionally greater than the increase in price. Coca-Cola which Estimated Elasticity is -1.22 I believe is elastic because it has a greater then 1 Cigarettes which Estimated Elasticity is -0.25 I believe is inelastic because it has less than 1 in absolute
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The United States is presently at war in Iraq and Afghanistan‚ where American troops are fighting and dying. At home‚ cars and homes display solid yellow or red‚ white‚ and blue ribbons that call for Americans to "Support Our Troops." It is patriotic for Americans to support their daughters and sons fighting in a war‚ but this patriotism does not mean that Americans must blindly support the decision to go to war. Being patriotic means that Americans must do the opposite: they must question their
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violence was pre-planned yet the union denied any conspiracy. The incident is recorded as the worst-ever for Suzuki since the company began operations in India in 1983 and adds to India’s recent incidents of labour disputes turning to violence. Microeconomic Problems of the company The Manesar plant suffered labour disputes with the management. The union had put forth their demands but the company was not ready to compromise. The workers had launched strike in 2011 demanding recognition of a new‚
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Tommy Deen November 28‚ 2006 ECO 201 The Microeconomics of the Video Game Industry Video games have been around for years with many different types of consoles and games. The video game industry has grown into a $20 billion dollar industry over the past ten years‚ and it only shows signs of growing larger in the years to come. In the United States alone‚ the market has grown considerably where 60% of all Americans play video games‚ 40% are women‚ and 60% of all gamers are between the ages
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Market Structure | NumberofSellers | TypeofProduct | BarrierstoEntry? | DemandCurve | Profit Maximization Condition | Perfect Competition | Many | Homogenous | No | Horizontal (perfectly elastic) | MR = MC | Monopoly | One | Unique | Yes | Downward Sloping | MR = MC | Monopolistic Competition | Many | Differentiated | No | Downward Sloping | MR = MC | Oligopoly | Few | Homogenous or Differentiated | Yes | Downward Sloping | MR = MC | The natural monopoly may be regulated through price‚ profit
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Perfect Competition of Wheat Crops and Variable Cost Basic theme Farmers gamble on deciding what crop to grow from year to year because variable costs can make it difficult for a farmer to break even and make profit. Critical Review Farmers who decided to grow wheat crops in winter are predicted to see profit this spring based on the estimated costs. Farmers have to almost blindly decide on which crop might be most profitable for them to grow because their total variable costs are always changing
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1 Total unity is best defined by which of the following The total satisfaction received from consuming a particular amount of a product 2 Which best express the law of diminishing marginal unity? The less of a product is consumed‚ the greater is the marginal utility of the product 3 Refer to the above table. What is the marginal utility of the fourth unit? 80 4 If the total utility is increasing‚ then marginal utility: May either be increasing or decreasing‚ but it must be greater than zero
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