Practice test 3 Flashcards
Suppose Ava buys only two things, e-books, and Matcha tea, and received the same satisfaction from the last book but she did from the last Matcha tea pot. Your books cost twice as much as Matcha tea, and she has spent all of her money. Diminishing marginal utility applies to both good cause she’s trying to maximize her utility. Ava should
Should buy more Matcha tea and fewer e-books
How much utilities gained by spending an additional dollar on tea cups?
MU cups/P cups
Budget lines for tangerines and water melons. For some time, Alberta had five dollars per month to spend on tangerines and water melons. The price of tangerines is $.50 and the price of watermelon is $.25. Which church shows what will happen to his budget line if his income decreases to $2.50
D
For Domingo, the optimum c consumption bundle is the one that——-his——-given his budget constraints
Maximizes, utility
It has a monthly income of $20 that can be spent on Bree and plums. The price of a wheel of Bree is five dollars and the price of a plum is $.50. Which bundle three and plums affordable for eve, but does not use all of her income.
One wheel of brie and 22 plums
If has a monthly income of $20 that can be spent on Bree and pumps. The price of a wheel with Fritas five dollars and the price of a plum is $.50. Which bundle of Bree and plums lies on eves budget line.
2 wheels of brie and 20 plums
Margaret Spencer entire budget on smoothies and muffins. The last smoothie provided Margaret with an additional util, and the last muffin provided her with 25 additional util. The price of a muffin is twice that of a smoothie. Assuming that the mission marginal utility of us are both good, Margaret should consume.—— smoothies, and—— muffins.
Fewer, more
Josephines budget line reflects the —— available to Josephine if she spends —- of her income.
Consumption bundles, all
Eve has a monthly income of $20 that she can spend on brie and plums. The price of a wheel of brie is $5 and the proce of plum is $0.50. The equation for Eves daily budget constraint can be written
5(B)+0.5(P) is greater than or equal to 20
If total utility is rising as more pasta is consumed, we can definitely say that marginal utility is:
Greater than 0
Assume yhat Tanya spends all of her income on Baklava and prunes and is purchasing the optimal consumption bundle. If MUB /MUP = 3 and the price of baklava is $12 then the price of prunes must be:
$4
An individuals—— function indicates the total utility generated by the individuals consumption bundle
Utility
Ahmed spend all of his income on chimichangas and prickly pear margaritas. His income is $100, the price of chimichangas it’s $10 and the price of prickly pear margarita two dollars. If I’m in purchases 10 prickly pear, margarita us he can purchase.—— chimichangas
Eight
Arthur’s budget constraints. If we place e-books on the horizontal access and online movies on the vertical access, the vertical intercept of Arthur’s budget line is.
Arthur’s trying to decide how to allocate his $50 budget for e-books and online movie streaming on the price of an e-book is one dollar in the price of a movie is five dollars
10
Adam is an economics working at the federal reserve bank of Austin. For Adam, the satisfaction, an individual derives from the consumption of goods and services is best described as.
Utility
Adam chooses a combination of pineapples and mangoes along his budget line. At the marginal rate of substitution of pineapples in place of mangoes is to the price of pineapples is $.50 in the price of mangoes is one dollar. Adam.
Should consume more pineapples and fewer mangoes to maximize total utility
Anthony sees candy corn chips as perfect substitutions. He’s always willing to substitute 3 cups of candy corn for one cup of chips. If Anthony consumes only candy corn then we know that the relative price of candy corn in terms of chips is.
Less than 0.33
At the optimal consumption, bundle, which of the following conditions does not hold?
The price of all goods in the optimal bundle are equal
Customer equilibrium in the market for hostels and train tickets. And unattainable level of utility given budget constraint FL is at point.
J
Abbie operates a mobile medical clinic and drives many miles each day to set up and prepare to see patients. She gets utilities from the purchase of medical supplies, but she doesn’t care which brand of supplies she consumes. Suppose she has a daily budget of $100 for bandit aids and today’s health today she notices that the price of Band-Aids is $2.50 and the price of supplies at today’s health is $3.33. What is the optimal purchase of medical supplies
40 units of Band-Aids, and none at today’s health
Consumer equal of room in the market for soap and coconut oil. The highest level of total utility is associated with the point.——-on indifference curve——
J, A
Consumer equilibrium in the market for hostels and train tickets. Assuming that you were consuming the combination of goods at point G, given the budget constraints of FL utility.
Can be increased by consuming more train tickets, and fewer nights in a hotel rooms
Hacks for cell phones and Uber rides. Rafael is originally consuming his optimal consumption bottle at point a win. The price of Uber rides falls. The movement from K one to K to reflect the.——— the decrease in the price of Uber rides
Substitution effect of
Anthony sees candy corn chips as perfect substitute. He’s always willing to substitute 3 cups of candy corn for one cup of chips. If the price of a cup of candy corn equals the price of a cup of chips, Anthony will eat.
Only chips
Emma sees cream and milk as perfect substitutions. She’s always willing to substitute 1 teaspoon of cream for 2 teaspoons of milk. If the price of a pint of cream is half of a pint of milk, Emma will use.
Only cream
Edward is tired of graduate school, as well as his part-time bartending job. On the spur of the moment, he decides to take a weekend trip to the Cayman Islands for snorkeling. He pays for it with his credit card rather than money from his bank account, which type of irrational behavior does this best describe?
Mental accounting
Generally, if you were to hire an accountant to assist you in economic decisions, you’re considering, the accountant would use only—— cost in her analysis
Explicit
Gennaro is a blogger living in Italy who could work for LA Republica a newspaper in the room as a food critic for $50,000 a year but instead runs a blogging business online through advertising makes revenues of $80,000 per year. His only business expenses are $2000 for supplies and $18,000 for rent for his office space. What is your Narrs economic profit from working as a freelance writer
$10,000
The optimal quantity. If the marginal benefit curve of lawnmowing were to increase the marginal.——-curve in the figure which shift to the—-And the optimal quantity would be——-then five lawns mowed
Benefit right grader
Jillian’s cupcake shop. Given the information provided Jillian should stop selling cupcakes asked her.
Jillian wants a cupcake shop where she sells cupcakes for one dollar each. She employs five people each of homework for a total of 500 hours last year. She paid them $10 per hour. Her cost of equipment and roll material adds up to $75,000 her business ability is legendary and other companies have offered to pay Jillian $100,000 to come and work for them. She also knows she could sell her cupcake shop for $150,000. The bank in town pays an annual interest rate of 3% on all funds deposited is it
Implicit costs are greater than her accounting profit
A person who is oversensitive to loss, unwilling to recognize a loss and move on, is
Los averse
Amanda’s accountant tells him that he made a profit of $21,300 running a pottery studio in Boston or man’s wife and economics claims are mad lost $21,300 running his pottery studio. This means his wife is claiming that he incurred.—— in——-cost
$42,600, implicit
Katz delicatessen’s is having a special on pastrami sandwiches. One sandwich for $12.02 sandwiches for $21.03 sandwiches for $29 and four sandwiches for $35. The marginal cost of the second sandwiches.
Nine dollars
—— is the mistaken belief that and unrecoverable cost represents an opportunity cost
Sunk cost fallacy
Gwen sells lawnmowers. She can sell five per week at a price of $2000 per machine. If she charges $2100 per machine, she will sell only through for per week. The marginal benefit of selling the fifth lawnmower is.
$1600
After three years at the Massachusetts Institute of technology, Rod realizes that he doesn’t want to finish school, but really wants to be a chef. One rod mentioned that he is considering leaving University for culinary school, his parents and sister, he say for one more year to get his degree. Which statement is true
Rods parents are wrong, the marginal benefit to Rod of another year of university is less than the marginal cost of university
If Giordano’s pizza in Chicago computed its profits, without taking into account, it’s implicit cost, it would only be considering it’s
Accounting profit
Lucas installs custom alarm systems in Charis. If he installs set an alarm’s per day, his total cost or $300. If he installs eight alarm systems per day, his total cost or $400, Lucas will install a alarm systems per day only if the eighth customer is willing to pay at least
$100
Marginal analysis is relevant to
Only how much decisions
If at a given quantity—— the decision maker should do—— of the activity
MB<MC less
The marginal benefit curve. The total benefit of cleaning six pools is approximately.
$154
In making an either or decision, it is generally recommended to
Choose the activity that results in the greater economic profit
Average variable cost is
Total variable cost divided by output
In economics, the short run is defined as
A period in which at least one input is fixed
Orville’s ocular paradise produces 10 pairs of sunglasses. It’s average variable cost is $30 and it’s average fixed cost is five dollars. The average total cost of producing 10 pairs of sunglasses is.
$35
Average total cost is
Total cost divided by output
Anita is an economic system with the national Bureau of economic research. I need a nose that one the long run average total cost curve is that it’s lowest point, it is tangent to the.——-of the corresponding short run average total cost curve
Minimum