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Introduction to Microeconomics MCQ

A market with well-established rules and structure is a(n) _______ market.

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Correct Answer: Formal

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A market economy will produce _____ without any government regulation.

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Correct Answer: Too much pollution

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The two types of goods and services produced are _______. an example of _______.

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Correct Answer: Consumption goods and services and capital goods; consumption good

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The gap between ______ is the output gap.

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Correct Answer: Real GDP and potential​ GDP

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Firms, households, and governments use the credit market for borrowing. The credit demand curve shows the relationship between the quantity of credit demanded and the real interest rate. the credit demand curve slopes downward because ____________.

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Correct Answer: A higherhigher real interest rate reducesreduces a borrowing​ firm's profit and hence its willingness to borrow.

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The business cycle occurs because ______.

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Correct Answer: Aggregate demand and​ short-run aggregate supply​ fluctuate, but the money wage rate does not adjust quickly enough to keep real GDP at potential GDP

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The ______________ is the average tendency to save income at a given income level.

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Correct Answer: APS

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Forms of money in the united states consist of paper money, coins, and _____.

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Correct Answer: Checking account balances

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The location of a firm will be a _________ factor of production in ________ run.

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Correct Answer: Variable; the long

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Each point on the demand curve represents the quantity demanded at a specific ______.

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Correct Answer: Price

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Diminishing returns begin to occur with the hiring of the _________ unit of labor.

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Correct Answer: Third

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A ______ is the difference between the regular selling price of an item and its discounted price.

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Correct Answer: Sales price variance

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The supply curve represents the _____ price at which a firm is willing to _____.

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Correct Answer: Minimum; sell various quantities of a good

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Individual consumers supply ____ and purchase ____.

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Correct Answer: Factors of production; final goods and services

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The amount of an increase in income is called the _________ income.

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Correct Answer: Marginal

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If the price elasticity of demand is equal to 2, the good has _____ demand.

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Correct Answer: Elastic

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If people have ______ income, they will purchase more of an "inferior"good.

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Correct Answer: Less

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If demand is inelastic, a price ________ causes ________ in total revenue.

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Correct Answer: Decrease, decrease

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In a competitive market equilibrium the ________ equals the ________ of the last unit sold.

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Correct Answer: Marginal benefit; marginal cost

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As production moves up, the average cost per unit decreases because ________.

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Correct Answer: Fixed costs are spread over more units

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A supply curve that has a __________ slope represents a more elastic supply curve.

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Correct Answer: Flatter

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_________ is (are) the largest implicit cost of operating a business.

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Correct Answer: Profit

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Accountants use only ________ costs in their computations of cost.

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Correct Answer: Explicit

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There is no supply curve with any model other than ____________ which has a horizontal demand line.

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Correct Answer: Pure competition

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The most common pattern for marginal utility is ____________________.

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Correct Answer: Diminishing marginal utility

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In the goods market, firms ________ and households ________.

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Correct Answer: Supply goods and services; purchase goods and services

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In the ____________, households receive goods and services and pay firms for them.

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Correct Answer: Goods & services market

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A person who charges a price that is determined by buying and sales decisions is a _____.

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Correct Answer: Price taker

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The gnp accounts for the aggregate of all goods and services produced by americans ____________.

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Correct Answer: Regardless of location

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The price of paper increases by a lot. book producers respond by supplying _____ books.

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Correct Answer: Fewer

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When unskilled teens earn less than college graduates, society answers the ________ question.

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Correct Answer: For whom

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A giffen good is one in which the _____ curve is _____ sloped.

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Correct Answer: Demand; positively

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Normal profits in a perfectly competitive industry refer to ______ run profits.

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Correct Answer: Zero long

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If the fed wants to increase the money supply, it will _____ treasury securities.

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Correct Answer: Buy

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When opportunity cost is positive, economic profit ______ accounting profit.

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Correct Answer: Is less than

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When a minimum wage is set above the equilibrium wage rate, _______.

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Correct Answer: Create a surplus of labor.

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Planned economies rely heavily on ________ to make most economic decisions.

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Correct Answer: The government

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If demand is inelastic, the tax burden falls primarily on the _____ and deadweight loss is _____.

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Correct Answer: Buyer,small

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Mc is a _____-shaped curve due to the law of diminishing returns.

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Correct Answer: U

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The colloid osmotic pressure in the capillary is caused by __________.

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Correct Answer: Proteins in the blood

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