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Example Question #81 : Competition
Reference this chart for the question below:
Output |
Total Cost ($) |
1 |
10 |
2 |
15 |
3 |
19 |
4 |
24 |
5 |
30 |
6 |
38 |
7 |
49 |
If the market is perfectly competitive, and the market price of the good is $6, how many units should this supplier produce and sell on the market?
Cannot be determined
3
5
7
4
5
Marginal revenue equals marginal cost at $6 for the 5th unit produced. Total revenue equals total cost at both the 4th and 5th unit, but this is not the determining factor.
Example Question #82 : Competition
Which of these actions most obviously produces a negative externality?
Selling your old stuff online
Trashing your room
Farming sweet potatoes
Littering
Working as a software engineer
Littering
Trashing your room really only affects you. Only littering, which affects the general public, is clearly a negative externality.
Example Question #83 : Competition
Which of the following breakdowns in the rules of perfect competition is likely to result in a market externality?
Increasing returns to scale in production
Poorly defined property rights
High entry and exit barriers
Firms sell differentiated, non-identical products
Many sellers, one buyer
Poorly defined property rights
Among the available choices, only poorly defined property rights is likely to result in an externality. For example, poorly defined intellectual property rights could result in firms not reaping the full benefit of their research and development and therefore doing less than is socially optimal.
Example Question #84 : Competition
The following are characteristics of a perfectly competitive market. Among these, which is most clearly lacking in the market for used cars?
Well defined property rights
Lack of increasing returns to scale
Large number of buyers and sellers
Factors of production are perfectly mobile in the long run
Buyers and sellers have perfect information on the quality of the product
Buyers and sellers have perfect information on the quality of the product
Although few real-life markets meet the characteristics of perfect competition exactly, the lack of perfect (or even equal) information about the goods being traded stands out in the used car market. When dealing in used cars, the seller typically has much more information about the quality of the car than the buyer.
The other answers more or less fit the perfect competition model. There are many buyers and sellers, the property rights of the buyer and seller are well defined, there are limited returns to scale (i.e. small used car sellers have not been competed out of existence), and factors of production (labor, land) can be put to other uses.
Example Question #85 : Competition
Reference this chart for the question below:
Output |
Total Cost ($) |
1 |
10 |
2 |
15 |
3 |
19 |
4 |
24 |
5 |
30 |
6 |
38 |
7 |
49 |
The marginal cost of producing the 7th unit of output is:
The total cost of producing 7 units is $49. Since the total cost of producing 6 units is $38, the marginal cost of producing the 7th unit must be $11.
Example Question #115 : Ap Microeconomics
The law of diminishing marginal utility explains:
the diminishing marginal product of capital
law of inequality
law of supply
law of demand
law of comparative advantage
the diminishing marginal product of capital
The law of diminishing marginal utility states that the marginal value derived from a unit decreases as its use increases. This explains the phenomenon where the use of capital (its marginal product) decreases or diminishes as its utilization increases.
Example Question #116 : Ap Microeconomics
Which of the following is an example of a public good?
An eraser
A theme park
None of the other answers
An online blog
A book
An online blog
A public good is both non-rival (a person's use does not prevent another person's use) and non-rivalrous (a person cannot be excluded from using it). The only good that fits this description is the online blog.
Example Question #117 : Ap Microeconomics
An industry with a small number of firms (3-5) is considered to be:
a monopoly
a perfect competition
an oligopoly
a monopolistic competition
a duopoly
an oligopoly
A market or industry that is dominated by a small number of firms is called an oligopoly. By contrast, monopolies are dominated by one firm, duopolies are dominated by two firms, and perfectly competitive and monopolistically competitive industries have many firms competing with one another.
Example Question #118 : Ap Microeconomics
The market for pizza is currently in equilibrium. If the demand for pizza rises while its supply falls, what can you say about the price and quantity of pizza in the market?
price and quantity both decrease
price and quantity both increase
change in price and quantity is ambiguous
price rises, change in quantity is ambiguous
quantity rises but change in price is ambiguous
price rises, change in quantity is ambiguous
An increase in the demand for pizza will increase its price and quantity, while a decrease in the supply of pizza will increase its price and decrease its quantity. Thus, the price of pizza will unambiguously increase, but the quantity can either increase or decrease, depending on which change has the greater effect on supply.
Example Question #81 : Perfectly Competitive Output Markets
The United States trades corn in exchange for maple syrup from Canada. If these nations are taking advantage of relative opportunity costs, what must be true?
The U.S. has an absolute advantage in maple syrup production, while Canada has an absolute advantage in corn production.
The U.S. has a comparative advantage in corn production, while Canada has a comparative advantage in maple syrup production.
The U.S. has an absolute advantage in corn production, while Canada has an absolute advantage in maple syrup production.
The U.S. has a comparative advantage in maple syrup production, while Canada has a comparative advantage in corn production.
The U.S. has an absolute advantage in both the production of maple syrup and corn.
The U.S. has a comparative advantage in corn production, while Canada has a comparative advantage in maple syrup production.
When two countries trade two goods with one another, they will trade the goods that they have a comparative advantage in producing. One nation can have an absolute advantage in the production of both goods, but each nation will still have a comparative advantage in producing one of the two goods.