1. the marginal cost curve is
A. Downward sloping to reflect the bowed out PPF.
B. Downward sloping as marginal benefits increase.
C. Upward sloping because marginal cost falls as more of a good or service is produced.
D. Upward sloping to reflect the increasing opportunity cost of producing one more unit.
E. U-shaped to reflect the bowed out PPF.
2. Allocative efficiency occurs
A. Anywhere inside or on the production possibilities frontier.
B. When the total cost of production is minimized
C. At all points on the production possibilities frontier.
D. At only one point on the production possibilities frontier.
E. At the points where the production possibilities frontier crosses the horizontal or vertical axis.
3. Auditors working for a large accounting firm are often away from the office. When they are in the office, they are allowed to use any desk that is available. Which method is used to allocate desks?
A. lottery
B. first-come, first-served
C. Command
D. Contest
E. Sharing equally
4. The marginal cost of a good or service
A. Can be calculated from the marginal benefit of that good or service.
B. decreases as more of the good or service is produced.
C. Can be derived from the production possibilities frontier.
D. Graphs as a positively sloped curve, so it cannot be derived from the production possibilities frontier, which is downward sloping.
E. None of the above answers is correct.
5. The maximum amount of other goods and services that people are willing to give up in order to get one more unit of a good is defined as the good's
A. Marginal benefit.
B. Total benefit.
C. Marginal cost
D. Total cost.
E. Price.