ECO105Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Humane Society, Fish Processing, Overconsumption

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Economists use the term supply to summarize all the influences on business decisions. Business decisions are objective , whenever consumer decisions tend to be more subjectively based on desires and preferences. Businesses must pay higher prices to obtain more of an input because opportunity costs change with circumstances. The marginal costs of additional inputs (like labour) are ultimately opportunity costs. The best alternative use of the input. Marginal cost - additional opportunity cost of increasing quantity supplied, and changes with circumstances. Suppliers supply more as the price rises higher prices are necessary to compensate for your time the higher opportunity costs of more additional time (or other resources) given up of. Differences between smart supply choices and smart demand choices are: For demand, marginal benefit decreases as you buy more. For supply, marginal cost increases as you supply more. Supply and demand choices reverse the comparison of benefits and costs.

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Demand is elastic when the elasticity ofdemandis:
Select correct option:
Greater than 0
Greater than 1
Less than 1
Less than 0

The law of diminishing returns assumes:
Select correct option:
There are no fixed factors of production.
There are no variable factors of production.
Utility is maximised when marginal product falls.
Some factors of production are fixed.

The law of diminishing marginal utility states:
Select correct option:
The supply curve slopes upward.
Your utility grows at a slower and slower rate as you consumemoreand more units of a good.
The elasticity of demand is infinite.
None of the given options.

If there is a price ceiling, there will be:
Select correct option:
Shortages
Surpluses
Equilibrium
None of the given options.

A "Giffen good" is defined as one for which:
Select correct option:
Marginal utility is zero.
The demand curve is perfectly elastic.
The substitution effect is positive.
The demand curve is positively sloped.

The concave shape of the production possibilitiescurveillustrates:
Select correct option:
Increasing opportunity costs for both goods
Increasing opportunity cost for good X but not for good Y
Increasing opportunity cost for good Y but not for good X
Constant opportunity costs for both goods

Although there are many reasons why a market can benon-competitive,the principal economic difference between acompetitive and anon-competitive market is:
Select correct option:
The number of firms in the market.
The extent to which any firm can influence the price oftheproduct.
The size of the firms in the market.
The annual sales made by the largest firms in the market.

If marginal product is equal to average product:
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The total product will fall
The average product will not change
Average variable costs will fall
Total revenue will fall

The price elasticity of supply shows us:
Select correct option:
How steep the supply curve is
How fast supply responds to price
How much supply shifts when income changes
How much quantity supplied responds to price changes

Moving from left to right, the typical productionpossibilitiescurve:
Select correct option:
Has a constant negative slope
Has a constant positive slope
Illustrates increasing opportunity costs
Illustrates decreasing opportunity costs

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Multiple Choice:

1. If 8 percent increase in the price of one good results in an increase of 4 percent in the quantity

demanded of another good, then it can be concluded that the two goods are:

a) complements.

b) substitutes.

c) independent.

d) normal.

2. The law of diminishing marginal utility explains why:

a) supply curves are upsloping.

b) demand curves are downsloping.

c) real income of the consumer rises when the price of a commodity falls.

d) substitution effect is always higher than income effect mentioned in c) above.

3. A necessary and sufficient condition for a rational consumer to be in equilibrium or at that position where he

maximizes utility is that the marginal utility:

a) of all products he consumes is zero.

b) of all products he consumes is positive.

c) is the same for all products.

d) per last dollar is the same for products consumed.

4. Diminishing returns are observed in increases of production output by adding a variable input to a fixed of

inputs because:

a) the ability or quality of the variable input added decreases are more is used.

b) the firm must lower the price of its product when it produces more units of output.

c) the per unit cost it must pay for the variable input increases as more of the input is used.

d) as more variable input is used, the amount of fixed input per variable input decreases.

5. A necessary and sufficient condition for a rational consumer to be in equilibrium or at that position where he

maximizes utility as he spends the last dollar of his budget is that the marginal utility:

e) of all products he consumes is zero.

f) of all products he consumes is positive.

g) is the same for all products.

h) per dollar for all products is the same.

6. The short run marginal cost (MC) curve eventually rises because of:

a) diseconomies of scale.

b) decreasing per unit fixed costs.

c) diminishing marginal returns.

d) increasing marginal productivity of the variable input.

7. Other things being equal, if the prices of a firm

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1.When the term "price" is used in the law of demand, price refers to Select one:

a. the price of the well relative to the price of another good.

b. the nominal price of the well relative to its nominal price in the previous year.

c. the absolute price of the good.

d. the dollar price of the good.

2.In economics, the meaning of demand refers to Select one:

a. the quantities of a good that people will sell at various prices.

b. the total satisfaction that consuming good provides people at different prices.

c. how badly someone wants a good.

d. the quantities of a good that people will buy at various prices.

3.Which of the following illustrates the law of demand?

Select one:

a. College enrollment increases when federal tuition grants are readily available to students.

b. More people watch college basketball in March than in November.

c. The number of long-distance calls in the United States is greater on Christmas than on Valentine's Day.

d. The prevailing wage rate in an industry determines how many people choose to work in the industry.

4.The absolute price of a good is its

Select one:

a. money price.

b. projected price.

c. relative price.

d. subjective price.

5.The only variable that can affect a movement along the demand curve is

Select one:

a. the number of buyers.

b. income levels.

c. the price of the good itself.

d. the number of substitutes.

6.The price of an MP3 music player increased from $50 to $70 while the price of a music download increased from $1 to $2. The relative price of an MP3 music player in terms of music downloads Select one:

a. increased from 0.04 to 0.05.

b. decreased, but we need more information to know by how much.

c. increased, but we need more information to know by how much.

d. decreased from 50 to 35.

7.The quantity supplied of a particular good is the amount of the good that

Select one:

a. households want firms to sell at each price during a particular time period.

b. firms will actually end up buying at a particular price during a given time period.

c. firms are willing to sell at each price during a particular time period.

d. households are willing to consume at each particular price.

8.An increase in price will lead to an increase in quantity supplied. This statement is

Select one:

a. the law of supply.

b. untrue always.

c. the law of demand.

d. a normative statement.

9.Regarding the law of supply, which of the following statements is correct?

Select one:

a. As demand falls, supply rises.

b. The ceteris paribus assumption does not apply.

c. As the price of a good or service rises, the quantity supplied will increase.

d. As the price of a good or service rises, the quantity supplied will decrease.

10.A given supply curve illustrates Select one:

a. the relationship between expected future prices and quantity supplied.

b. the effect of a change in resource costs on the quantity supplied.

c. the effect of a change in technology on the quantity supplied.

d. the relationship between price and quantity supplied.

11.If there is a decline in the price of milk, an input in the production of ice cream, then there will be a(n)

Select one:

a. decrease in the supply of ice cream and a leftward shift of the supply curve.

b. increase in the supply of ice cream and a rightward shift of the supply curve.

c. increase in the quantity of ice cream supplied and a movement down along the supply curve.

d. decrease in the quantity of ice cream supplied and a movement up along the supply curve.

12. An improvement in technology in the production of computers would

Select one:

a. increase the demand for computers.

b. decrease the supply of computers.

c. decrease the demand for computers.

d. increase the supply of computers.

13.Which of the following is a non-price determinant of supply? Select one:

a. the number of consumers

b. technological advances in production

c. the price of related goods consumers may buy

d. consumers' incomes

14.Which of the following does NOT cause a rightward shift in the supply curve?

Select one:

a. a reduction in resource costs

b. an increase in technology

c. a reduction in the expected future price of the good

d. a reduction in the price of the good

15.Which of the following is a possible outcome of setting a legal maximum rental rate below the market-clearing rental rate?

Select one:

a. a decrease in the quantity of rental housing demanded

b. an increase in the quantity of rental housing supply

c. a black market in rental housing

d. a surplus of rental housing

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