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8/11/2019 Review Midterm 1

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Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. When a society cannot produce all the goods and services people wish to have, it is said that the economy isexperiencinga. scarcity.

b. shortages.c. inefficiencies.d. inequities.

____ 2. Economics is the study ofa. production methods.b. how society manages its scarce resources.c. how households decide who performs which tass.d. the interaction of business and government.

____ !. " typical society strives to get the most it can from its scarce resources. "t the same time, the society attemptsto distribute the benefits of those resources to the members of the society in a fair manner. #n other words, thesociety faces a tradeoff betweena. guns and butter.b. efficiency and equity.c. inflation and unemployment.d. wor and leisure.

____ $. Efficiency means thata. society is conserving resources in order to save them for the future.b. society%s goods and services are distributed equally among society%s members.c. society%s goods and services are distributed fairly, though not necessarily equally, among

society%s members.d. society is getting the maximum benefits from its scarce resources.

____ &. Economists use the word equityto describe a situation in whicha. each member of society has the same income.

b. each member of society has access to abundant quantities of goods and services,regardless of his or her income.c. society is getting the maximum benefits from its scarce resources.d. the benefits of society%s resources are distributed fairly among society%s members.

____ '. (or most students, the largest single cost of a college education isa. the wages given up to attend school.b. tuition, fees, and boos.c. room and board.d. transportation, paring, and entertainment.

____ ). (or a college student who wishes to calculate the true costs of going to college, the costs of room and boarda. should be counted in full, regardless of the costs of eating and sleeping elsewhere.b. should be counted only to the extent that they are more expensive at college than

elsewhere.c. usually exceed the opportunity cost of going to college.d. plus the cost of tuition, equals the opportunity cost of going to college.

____ *. +he opportunity cost of an item isa. the number of hours needed to earn money to buy the item.b. what you give up to get that item.c. usually less than the dollar value of the item.d. the dollar value of the item.


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a. an auctioneer helps set prices and arrange sales.b. there are only a few sellers.c. the forces of supply and demand do not apply.d. no individual buyer or seller has any significant impact on the maret price.

____ 1*. "n example of a perfectly competitive maret would be thea. cable +: maret.

b. soybean maret.c. new car maret.d. blue 5ean maret.

____ 1. ;espite the fact that not all marets are perfectly competitive, the study of perfect competition is worthwhile,in part becausea. buyers and sellers are price taers in all marets, not 5ust in perfectly competitive marets.b. buyers find it difficult to buy all they want to buy, and sellers find it difficult to sell all

they want to sell, in all marets, not 5ust in perfectly competitive marets.c. some degree of competition is present in most marets, not 5ust in perfectly competitive

marets.d. perfectly competitive marets are the most difficult marets to analy7e, and this maes the

study of other types of marets easy in comparison.

____ 20. Which of the following is nota determinant of demand

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