Price Elasticity: Price Elasticity is used to explain the degree of responsiveness of the demand for a product to a change in its price. Ep=Percentage change in quality demanded/Percentage change in price (Ep=Price Elasticity) Practical applications of Price Elasticity: 1) Helps in fixing the prices of different goods: It helps a producer to fix the price of his product. A higher price is charged if the demand for the product is inelastic and a lower price is charged if the demand for the product
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5. Who from the following list would be considered a speculator by entering into a futures or options contract on commodities?(Points : 1) Corn delivery truck driver Food manufacturer Farmer None of the above | 6. Assume that you purchase 100 shares of Jiffy‚ Inc. common stock at the bid-ask prices of $32.00 - $32.50. When you sell the bid-ask prices are $32.50 - $33.00. If you pay a commission rate of 0.5%‚ what is your profit or loss? (Points : 1) $32
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Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and‚ there- fore‚ net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is MC = 40P where P represents a reduction of one unit of pollution in the mines. It also feels that for every unit of pollution reduction the marginal increase in revenue (MR) is MR =1‚000 =10P. How much pollution reduction should Appalachian Coal
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THE UTILITY CONCEPT THE term utility refers to satisfaction a consumer gets from whatever goods and services he consumes. It will be useful to discuss between two utility concepts: (i) total utility (ii) marginal utility Total utility attained from a commodity refers to the sum total of satisfaction which a consumer receives by consuming the various units of the commodity. The more units he consumes‚ the greater will be his total satisfaction upto a certain point. As he keeps on
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tendency? 3. If mean and SD are 50 and 10 then what is the value of Coefficient of Variation. 4. What is the empirical relationship between Mean‚ Median and Mode? 5. The mode always found at the highest point of a graph of a data distribution. (T/F) 6. For a data with 50 observations‚ the median will be the value of the 25 th observation. (T/F) 7. When referring to a curve that tail longer towards left end‚ you would call it ________________. 8. When a distribution is symmetrical and has one mode
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Learning activity 2 ch 3-U2 Read chapter 3‚ Demand and Supply‚ of your textbook. Answer the questions below. If a different source is used‚ identify your reference (title‚ author‚ edition‚ page‚ web page‚ date) as a footnote. Copy and paste are not allowed. Show how you obtained your final result. Take into account the due date for submitting assignments. 1. When do we say that two commodities are complements or substitutes? 2. 2. When do we classify goods as normal or inferior? According
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W. Cris Lewis MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS (Economics 4010) Business 302A T-TH 12:00-1:15 pm (Business 209) clewis@econ.usu.edu (CRN #10732) Office Hours: T-Th 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. and by appointment Spring 2007 Text: H. Craig Petersen and W. Cris Lewis‚ Managerial Economics‚ 4th edition (New York: MacMillan) 1999 (Required) Workbook: H. Craig Petersen and W. Cris Lewis‚ Managerial Economics: Study Guide w/Software (New York: MacMillan) 1999 (Not required but useful and on reserve in the library). Course
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Megastore to advertise and for Superstore to advertise. for Megastore to advertise and for Superstore not to advertise. for Megastore not to advertise and for Superstore to advertise. for Megastore not to advertise and for Superstore not to advertise. 6. You‚ a real-estate developer‚ own a piece of land in Nassau‚ Bahamas‚ next to an equal-size piece of land owned by a competitor. Both of you have the choice of building a casino or a hotel. Your payoffs are as follows: How much is it worth to you
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were higher‚ say 6%? Explain. (c) Suppose‚ instead of a constant money demand function‚ the velocity of money in this economy was growing steadily‚ say by 2% per annum because of financial innovation. How would that affect the inflation rate? Explain. A.2 The Money demand function (M/P)d = kY‚ where M/P = Real Money Balances k= money people wish to hold for each rupee of income and k= 1/V (a) Average Inflation Rate 12%- 4%= 8% (b) If Y=6%‚ then Inflation is 12% - 6 %= 6% Inflation depends
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LECTURE 7: ANGER ANGER OR EXASPERATION: Anger is a general and conventional commotion with a huge range of intensity‚ from mild irritation and frustration to rage. It is a counteraction to a perceived threat to ourselves‚ whom we love‚ things which we own‚ our self-image‚ or some part of self identity. Anger is an alarming bell that tells us that something is wrong. COMPONENTS OF ANGER: Anger has three components: * Physical reactions‚ usually starting with a rush of adrenaline and responses
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