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1) Every society faces economic tradeoffs. This means
a. producing more of one good means less of another good can be produced.
b. not everyone can have enough goods and services to survive.
c. some people live better than others do.
d. society’s output cannot be made available to all.

2) Which of the following statements is false?
a. Tradeoffs do not apply when consumers purchase a product for which there is
excess supply, such as a stock clearance sale.
b. Every individual, no matter how rich or poor, is faced with making tradeoffs.
c. Anytime you have to decide which action to take you are facing an economic
tradeoff.
d. Economics is a social science that studies the tradeoffs we are forced to
make because of scarcity.

3) Which of the following is not an example of an economic tradeoff that a firm
has to make?
a. whether it should produce more of its product.
b. whether it is cheaper to produce with more machines or with more workers.
c. whether or not consumers will buy its products .
d. whether to outsource the production of a good or service

4) How are the fundamental economic decisions determined in Cuba?
a. Primarily, the government decides because Cuba is a centrally planned
economy.
b. These decisions are made by the country’s elders who have had much experi-
ence in answering these questions.
c. Individuals, firms, and the government interact in a market to make these
economic decisions.
d. The United Nations decides because Cuba is a developing economy.

5) Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between economic
efficiency and economic equity?
a. They are both automatically achieved in a free market economy.
b. There is no conflict between the two goals.
c. There is often a trade-off between the two.
d. They always call for opposite outcomes.

6) Which of the following statements best characterizes the disagreements be-
tween Paul Samuelson and Jagdish Bhagwati in their debate about outsourc-
ing?
a. Their disagreements are grounded in normative economic analysis. They dis-
agree over how to interpret the relevant economic statistics.
b. Their disagreements are grounded in positive economic analysis. They dis-
agree about the relevant economic statistics used in the model.
c. Their disagreements are grounded in normative economic analysis. They dis-
agree over the types of jobs lost to outsourcing.
d. Their disagreements are grounded in positive economic analysis. They dis-
agree about the model and the assumptions used in the model.

7) Which of the following statements about profit is true?
a. Profit refers to the revenue received from the sale of a quantity of goods.
b. Profit is the difference between a firm’s revenue and its costs.
c. Profit is calculated by multiplying price per unit by the number of units sold.
d. The terms “accounting profit” and “economic profit” can be used inter-
changeably.

8) Which of the following is an example of an activity undertaken by an entre-
preneur?
a. holding a position as the president of a liberal arts college
b. landscape design for your new home
c. running for the president of the United States
d. starting your own pet sitting business

9) Suppose when the price of laptops falls, college students buy more laptops.
This implies that
a. there is a negative relationship between laptop prices and quantities pur-
chased by college students.
b. there is a one-to-one relationship between laptop prices and quantities pur-
chased by college students.
c. there is a direct relationship between laptop prices and quantities purchased
by college students.
d. there is a positive relationship between laptop prices and quantities pur-
chased by college students.
Figure 1-2

10) Refer to Figure 1-2. Calculate the area of the triangle A.
a. $6.3 million
b. $3.15 million
c. $8.4 million
d. $2.1 million

11) You explain to your friend Haslina, who runs a catering service called “Meals
in a Zip,” about an economic theory that asserts that consumers will pur-
chase less of a product at higher price than they will at lower prices. She
contends that the theory is incorrect because over the past two years she has
raised the price of her catered meals and yet has seen a brisk increase
in sales. How would you respond to Haslina?
a. I will explain to her that there are some omitted variables that have contrib-
uted to an increase in her sales such as changes in income.
b. Haslina is making the mistake of assuming that correlation implies causation.
c. I will explain to her that she confusing positive economic analysis with norma-
tive economic analysis.
d. Haslina is right; she has evidence to back her claim. The theory must be
false.

12) In a production possibilities frontier model, a point inside the frontier is
a. inefficient. Maximum output is not being obtained from available resources.
b. allocatively efficient.
c. allocatively inefficient.
d. productively efficient

13) A production possibilities frontier with a bowed outward shape indicates
a. decreasing opportunity costs as more and more of one good is produced.
b. constant opportunity costs as more and more of one good is produced.
c. the possibility of inefficient production.
d. increasing opportunity costs as more and more of one good is produced.
Figure 2-3

14) Refer to Figure 2-3. Carlos Vanya grows tomatoes and strawberries on his
land. A portion of his land is more suitable for growing tomatoes and the
other portion is better suited for strawberry cultivation. Which of the graphs
in Figure 2-3 represent his production possibilities frontier?
a. Graph A
b. Graph B
c. Graph C
d. either Graph A or Graph B
e. either Graph B or Graph C
Figure 2-4

Figure 2-4 shows various points on three different production possibilities frontiers for a nation.
15) Refer to Figure 2-4. A movement from X to Y
a. is the result of advancements in plastic production technology only, with no
change in food production technology.
b. is the result of advancements in food production technology only, with no
change in the technology for plastic production.
c. could occur because of an influx of immigrant labor.
d. could be due to a change in consumers’ tastes and preferences.
Figure 2-6

German auto producer BMW currently produces two types of automobiles, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and coupes, in its U.S. plant. Since it opened in 1994, the company has made several strategic production decisions. Figure 2-6 shows changes to its production possibilities frontier in response to some of these production strategies.
16) Refer to Figure 2-6. Between 1995 and 2003 worker productivity increased
so that the total number of vehicles produced increased as the company
added more machinery and workers and changed the layout of its factory.
This is best represented by the
a. movement from G to H in Graph B.
b. movement from L to K in Graph C.
c. movement from J to H in Graph B.
d. movement from E to F in Graph A.
Table 2-2
George Jack
Lawns Mowed 10 6
Gardens Cultivated 5 4

Table 2-2 shows the output per day of two gardeners, George and Jack. They can either devote their time to mowing lawns or cultivating gardens.
17) Refer to Table 2-2. What is George’s opportunity cost of cultivating a garden?
a. two lawns mowed
b. one and a half lawns mowed
c. two-thirds of a garden cultivated
d. one-half of a garden cultivated
Table 2-3
One Digital Camera Wheat (per pound)
China 100 hours 4 hours
south Korea 60 hours 3 hours

Table 2-3 shows the number of labor hours required to produce a digital camera and a pound of wheat in China and South Korea.
18) Refer to Table 2-3. What is South Korea’s opportunity cost of producing one
digital camera?
a. 25 pounds of wheat
b. 20 pounds of wheat
c. 0.05 pounds of wheat
d. 60 pounds of wheat
19) Refer to Table 2-3. China has a comparative advantage in
a. both products.
b. digital camera production.
c. wheat production.
d. neither product.
20) Refer to Table 2-3. If the two countries specialize and trade, who should
export digital cameras?
a. South Korea
b. There is no basis for trade between the two countries.
c. They should both be importing digital cameras.
d. China
Figure 2-10

21) Refer to Figure 2-10. The segment of the circular flow diagram in the Figure
shows the flow of funds from market F to economic agents G. The funds rep-
resent spending on goods and services. What is market F and who are eco-
nomic agents G?
a. F = factor markets; G = firms
b. F = factor markets; G = households
c. F = product markets; G = firms
d. F = product markets; G = households
22) Although it is a popular product, Apple makes little profit from each song
downloaded through iTunes. Why does Apple charge only $0.99 to download
a song?
a. Although Apple makes a small amount of profit per song, total profit is large
because the quantity sold is large.
b. The low price makes it more likely that consumers will buy iPods, which are
relatively expensive.
c. Apple plans to increase the price of downloading songs after it sells a large enough number of iPods.
d. Apple cannot raise the price above $0.99 per song because consumers can
download songs at even lower prices from Apple’s competitors.

23) The income effect of a price change refers to the impact of a change in
a. the price of a good on a consumer’s purchasing power.
b. income on the price of a good.
c. demand when income changes.
d. the quantity demanded when income changes

24) The Internet has created a new category in the book selling market, namely,
the “barely used” book. How does the availability of barely used books affect
the market for new books?
a. the demand curve for new books shifts to the left
b. the demand curve for new books shifts to the right
c. the supply curve for new books shifts to the right
d. the supply curve for new books shifts to the left

25) A supply schedule
a. is a table that shows the relationship between the price of a product and the
quantity of the product that producers and consumers are willing to exchange.
b. is a table that shows the relationship between the price of a product and the
quantity of the product supplied.
c. is a curve that shows the relationship between the price of a product and the
quantity of the product supplied.
d. is the relationship between the supply of a good and the cost of producing the
good.

26) In October 2005, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the importation
of beluga caviar, the most prized of caviars, from the Caspian Sea. What hap-
pened in the market for caviar in the U. S.?
a. The demand curve shifted to the right.
b. The demand curve shifted to the left.
c. The supply curve shifted to the right.
d. The supply curve shifted to the left.
Figure 3-2

27) Refer to Figure 3-2. If the price is $25,
a. there would be a shortage of 200 units.
b. there would be a surplus of 300 units.
c. there would be a shortage of 300 units
d. there would be a surplus of 200 units.

28) Assume there is a shortage in the market for digital music players. Which of
the following statements correctly describes this situation?
a. The shortage will cause an increase in the equilibrium price of digital music
players.
b. The price of digital music players will rise in response to the shortage; as the
price rises the quantity demanded will increase and the quantity supplied will
decrease.
c. Some consumers will be unable to obtain digital music players at the market
price and will have an incentive to offer to buy the product at a higher price.
d. The demand for digital music players is greater than the supply of digital
music players.

29) Select the phrase that correctly completed the following statement. “A posi-
tive change in technology caused an increase in the supply of flat-screen
televisions. As a result
a. the price of flat-screen televisions decreased and the quantity demanded of
flat-screen televisions increased.”
b. the price of flat-screen televisions decreased. The lower price caused the
supply of flat-screen televisions to decrease.”
c. the equilibrium quantity of flat-screen televisions decreased.”
d. the price of flat-screen televisions decreased and the demand for flat-screen
televisions increased.”

30) “Because apples and oranges are substitutes, an increase in the price of oranges will cause the demand for apples to increase. This initial shift in demand for apples results in a higher price for apples; this higher price will cause the demand curve for apples to shift to the right.” Which of the following correctly comments on this statement?
a. The statement is false because a change in the price of apples would not change the demand for apples.
b. The statement is false because one cannot assume that apples and oranges
are substitutes for all consumers.
c. The statement will be true, if consumer tastes for apples and oranges do not
change.
d. The statement is false because oranges are inferior goods; apples are normal
goods.

31) The demand for lobster is lower in the spring than in the summer. If the
price of lobster is higher in spring than in summer then
a. there are more substitutes for lobster in summer than there are in spring.
b. there is a shortage of lobster in spring and a surplus of lobster in summer.
c. the supply of lobster is greater in summer than in spring.
d. consumers’ tastes for lobster are greater in spring than in summer.

32) Suppliers will be willing to supply a product only if
a. the price received is less than the additional cost of producing the product.
b. the price is higher than the average cost of producing the product.
c. the price received is at least equal to the additional cost of producing the product.
d. the price received is at least double the additional cost of producing the product.
Table 4-3
Hourly Wage
(Dollars) Quantity of Labor Sup¬plied Quantity of Labor De-manded
$6.00 350,000 390,000
6.50 360,000 380,000
7.00 370,000 370,000
7.50 380,000 360,000
8.00 390,000 350,000
8.50 400,000 340,000

Table 4-3 shows the demand and supply schedules for the low-skilled labor market in the city of Westover.
33) Refer to Table 4-3. If a minimum wage of $7.50 an hour is mandated, what
is the quantity of labor supplied?
a. 370,000
b. 380,000
c. 390,000
d. 340,000
Figure 4-7

Figure 4-7 shows the demand and supply curves for the almond market. The government believes that the equilibrium price is too low and tries to help almond growers by setting a price floor at Pf.
34) Refer to Figure 4-7. What is the area that represents producer surplus after
the imposition of the price floor?
a. B + E + F
b. B + C + D + E
c. A + B + E
d. B + E

35) Which of the follow is not a result of imposing a rent ceiling?
a. an increase in the quantity demanded of apartments
b. a reduction in the quantity supplied of apartments
c. the marginal benefit of the last apartment rented is greater than the marginal
cost of supplying it
d. some consumer surplus is converted to producer surplus

36) If your neighbor burns auto tires in the yard and you can smell them and can-
not see sunlight because of the black smoke, you are experiencing
a. a positive externality.
b. a private benefit.
c. a private cost.
d. a negative externality.

37) Vaccinating people against a communicable disease such as influenza not
only reduces the chances that the person vaccinated will catch the disease
but also reduces the probability that an epidemic of the disease will occur.
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The benefits of the influenza vaccination outweigh the costs.
b. Reducing the chances that the person vaccinated will catch the disease is a
private benefit while reducing the probability of an influenza epidemic is a
social benefit.
c. Vaccinating people against communicable diseases yields private benefits in
excess of social benefits.
d. Reducing the chances that the person vaccinated will catch the disease is
a private cost while reducing the probability of an influenza epidemic is a
social benefit.

38) Which of the following conditions holds in an economically efficient competi-
tive market equilibrium?
a. The marginal benefit of the last unit produced and consumed is maximized.
b. Producer and consumer surplus are exactly equal in size.
c. There are no positive and no negative external effects from consumption and
production.
d. The deadweight loss is positive but at a minimum.
Figure 4-14

Figure 4-14 shows a market with a positive externality.
39) Refer to Figure 4-14. The deadweight loss due to the externality is represented by the area
a. msn.
b. nso.
c. mso.
d. mtn.
Figure 4-15

Companies producing toilet paper bleach the paper to make it white. The bleach is discharged into rivers and lakes and causes substantial environmental damage. Figure 4-15 illustrates this situation in the toilet paper market.
40) Refer to Figure 4-15. The efficient output is
a. Q3.
b. Q1.
c. Q2.
d. Q4.
41) How has organizing a successful firm in a market economy changed over the
last century?
a. There has been no change over the last century.
b. It has become easier as more and more firms discover how to do it.
c. As government intervention has decreased, firms now have more freedom.
d. It has become more difficult to organize an efficient and successful firm.
42) What is the relationship of the owners of a corporation to the corporation?
a. The personal assets of the owners are part of the corporation’s assets.
b. The owners of the corporation have a separate legal distinction from the cor-
poration.
c. The owners of the corporation have no separate legal distinction from the corporation.
d. None of the above describes the relationship.

43) When you buy previously-issued shares of Google stock, this transaction takes
place in the
a. secondary market.
b. bond market.
c. primary market.
d. bear market.

44) You have a bond that pays $60 per year in coupon payments. Which of the
following would result in an increase in the price of your bond?
a. The price of a share of stock in the company falls.
b. The likelihood that the firm issuing your bond will default on debt increases.
c. Coupon payments on newly-issued bonds fall to $50 per year.
d. Coupon payments on newly-issued bonds rise to $80 per year.

45) In June 2007 General Motors (GM) posted a price-earnings ratio of 9.84. If
the price of the stock at that time was $36 per share, which of the following
must have been true?
a. GM’s earnings per share was 3.66.
b. GM’s coupon payment was $35 per year.
c. GM’s dividend yield for the year was 26%.
d. GM’s revenues that month were $366 million.

46) In 2007, the dividend yield on General Motors (GM) stock fell from 8.6% to
4.4%. Which of the following would have generated that result?
a. The price-earnings ratio rose.
b. GM issued bonds with a coupon rate equal to 8%.
c. GM announced a decrease in the dividend it would pay per share.
d. The closing price of GM stock fell.

47) Which of the following is an example of an implicit cost a firm might incur?
a. taxes owed to the state and federal governments
b. the out-of-pocket expense to hire resources
c. the revenue a firm generates in using its resources
d. the rental value of the office space the company owns and uses for itself

48) What is shown on a firm’s income statement?
a. profits
b. revenues
c. costs
d. All of these are shown on a firm’s income statement.

49) In addition to requiring that CEO’s personally certify the accuracy of financial
statements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 also requires that
a. corporations issue financial statements monthly rather than quarterly.
b. firms raise funds for expansion through the sale of bonds only, not stocks.
c. auditors disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
d. CEOs conduct audits of their corporations themselves.

50) Suppose your marginal utility from consuming a third slice of cake is zero,
then your total utility from consuming cake is
a. increasing.
b. negative.
c. decreasing.
d. maximized.

51) When the price of summer tank tops falls and you buy more them because
they are relatively less expensive, this is called
a. the elasticity effect.
b. the deadweight loss effect.
c. the income effect.
d. the substitution effect.

52) Most film processing companies have a policy of printing every picture on a
roll of film and allowing customers to request a refund for pictures that were
not clearly developed. The companies do this knowing that most customers
do not ask for refunds. This is an example of consumers
a. not taking non-monetary opportunity costs into account.
b. not making themselves aware of the policy regarding refunds.
c. failing to ignore sunk costs.
d. being overly optimistic about their future behavior.

53) If demand is perfectly price elastic, the absolute value of the price elasticity
of demand is
a. less than one.
b. more than one.
c. infinity.
d. equal to the absolute value of the slope of the demand curve.

54) If the market for a product is broadly defined, then
a. there are many substitutes for the product and the demand for the product is
relatively elastic.
b. the good has many complements.
c. there are few substitutes for the product and the demand for the product is
relatively inelastic.
d. the expenditure on the good is likely to make up a large share of one’s bud-
get.
Figure 6-2

55) Refer to Figure 6-2. The inelastic segment of the demand curve
a. lies above the midpoint of the curve.
b. is coincident with the horizontal axis.
c. lies below the midpoint of the curve.
d. is coincident with the vertical axis.
Table 6-3
Price per pound
(Dollars) Quantity Demanded of cheese (pounds)
$16 3
14 4
12 5
10 6
8 7
6 8
4 9
2 10

56) Refer to Table 6-3. Over what range of prices is the demand price elastic?
a. over the entire range of prices
b. between $8 and $16
c. between $12 and $16
d. between $2 and $8

57) When a firm changes its price, the change in total revenue
a. depends on the value of the price elasticity of demand and the direction of
the price change.
b. is zero.
c. is negative.
d. is positive.

58) A characteristic of the long run is
a. there are both fixed and variable inputs
b. plant capacity cannot be increased or decreased.
c. all inputs can be varied.
d. there are fixed inputs.

59) Academic book publishers hire editors, designers, and production and marketing managers who help prepare books for publication. Because these employees work on several books simultaneously, the number of people the company hires will not go up and down with the quantity of books the company publishes during any particular year. The salaries and benefits of people in these job categories will be included in
a. marginal cost and total cost but not fixed cost.
b. fixed cost but not variable cost and total cost.
c. fixed cost and marginal cost but not variable cost.
d. fixed cost and total cost but not variable cost.

60) If another worker adds 9 units of output to a group of workers who had an
average product of 7 units then the average product of labor
a. will increase.
b. will decrease.
c. will remain the same.
d. cannot be determined from the information given.
Table 7-1
Number of workers Mushrooms per day (pounds)
1 12
2 30
3 45
4 50
5 54
6 56

Table 7-1 shows the technology of production at the Matsuko’s Mushroom Farm for the month of May 2007.
61) Refer to Table 7-1. Diminishing returns set in when the ________ worker is
hired.
a. 2nd
b. 3rd
c. 4th
d. None of the above; the production function displays increasing marginal
returns.

62) If production displays economies of scale, the long run average cost curve is
a. upward sloping.
b. above the short run average total cost curve.
c. below the long run marginal cost curve.
d. downward-sloping.

63) When a firm’s long-run average cost curve is horizontal for a range of output,
then in that range production displays
a. constant average fixed costs.
b. increasing returns to scale.
c. constant returns to scale.
d. decreasing returns to scale.

64) The price of a seller’s product in perfect competition is determined by
a. the individual seller.
b. a few of the sellers.
c. the average consumer.
d. market demand and market supply.

65) All of the following can be used to compute profit per unit except
a. price minus average total cost.
b. total profit divided by quantity.
c. average revenue minus average total cost
d. marginal profit minus marginal cost.

66) Val Alvarado, an accountant, quit his $80,000-a-year job and bought an
existing laundry from its previous owner. The lease had five years remaining
and required a monthly payment of $4,000. Val’s explicit costs are $3,000
per month more than his revenue. Should Val continue operating his busi-
a. If Val’s marginal revenue is greater than or equal to his marginal cost, then he
should stay in business.
b. Val should continue to run the laundry until his lease runs out.
c. Val’s explicit cost exceeds his total revenue. He should shut down his laundry.
d. cannot be determined without knowing his revenue

67) A perfectly competitive market is in long-run equilibrium. At present there are
100 identical firms each producing 5,000 units of output. The prevailing
market price is $20. Assume that each firm faces increasing marginal cost.
Now suppose there is a sudden increase in demand for the industry’s product
which causes the price of the good to rise to $24. Which of the following
describes the effect of this increase in demand on a typical firm in the indus-
try?
a. In the short run the typical firm increases its output and makes an above
normal profit.
b. In the short run the typical firm’s output remains the same but because of the
higher price its profit increases.
c. In the short run the typical firm increases its output but its total cost also
rises. Hence, the effect on the firm’s profit cannot be determined without
more information.
d. In the short run the typical firm increases its output but its total cost also
rises, resulting in no change in profit.

68) Which of the following describes a situation in which every good or service is
produced up to the point where the last unit provides a marginal benefit to consumers equal to the marginal cost of producing it?
a. profit maximization
b. productive efficiency
c. allocative efficiency
d. marginal efficiency
69) According to Craig Johnson, president of retail consulting group Customer
Growth Partners “Wal-Mart’s foray into organics should help to bring down
prices for consumers.” Which of the following statements supports Mr. John-
son’s argument?
a. Wal-Mart has a reputation for deliberately lowering prices to force its competi-
tors out of the market.
b. Wal-Mart is large enough that it can successfully pressure the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture to force organic food farmers to lower their prices.
c. By expanding the organic market, Wal-Mart would bring in economies of scale
that would, when added to a competitive market, drive down prices.
d. Wal-Mart’s core customer base is the low-income consumer. Therefore, to
compete for this customer group organic food farmers will be compelled to lower prices.

70) Which of following is the best example of a monopoly if we use a broad
definition of monopoly?
a. Cheap Gas, one of two gasoline stations in a large rural community
b. Spuds Mckenzie, a wealthy potato farmer in Idaho
c. Zippie Rentals, a sports car rental service in downtown Boston
d. Santos Tacos, the only taqueria in the small town of Santosville

71) Microsoft thought that the initial Xbox was sufficiently different from PS2
that it could charge a significantly higher price for the Xbox than Sony could
charge for PS2. Which of the following statements is implied by Microsoft’s
product positioning?
a. Microsoft recognized that the PS2 was a substitute for the Xbox but believed
that the Microsoft name would be sufficient to draw customers away from the
PS2 and that customers would be willing to pay a premium for Microsoft’s
product.
b. Microsoft believed that the PS2 would soon be phased out by Sony’s PS3;
therefore, it could charge a high price for the Xbox because it had no close
substitutes.
c. Microsoft believed that the PS2 was a distant substitute for the Xbox and
therefore the demand curve for Xbox would be elastic. Charging a higher price
would enable it to increase its profits.
d. Microsoft believed that it had differentiated the Xbox sufficiently to insulate
it from competition. Consequently, it would be able to charge a higher price
and increase its profits.
72) Because a monopoly’s demand curve is the same as the market demand
curve for its product,
a. the monopoly’s average total cost always falls as it increases its output.
b. the monopoly is a price taker.
c. the monopoly must lower its price to sell more of its product.
d. the monopoly’s marginal revenue equals its price.
Figure 9-1

Figure 9-1 above shows the demand and cost curves facing a monopolist.
73) Refer to Figure 9-1. If the firm’s average total cost curve is ATC2 the firm will
a. make a profit.
b. break even.
c. suffer a loss.
d. face competition.

74) Which of the following statements applies to a monopolist but not to a per-
fectly competitive firm at its profit-maximizing output?
a. Price equals marginal cost.
b. Marginal revenue is less than price.
c. Marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
d. Average revenue equals average cost.

75) Natural monopolies in the United States are generally regulated by
a. the Department of Commerce.
b. the Department of Justice.
c. local or state regulatory commissions.
d. the Federal Trade Commission.

76) A major difference between monopolistic competition and perfect competi-
tion is that
a. there are barriers to entry in monopolistic competition. There are no barriers
to entry in perfectly competitive markets.
b. monopolistically competitive firms sell differentiated products. Perfectly
competitive firms sell identical products.
c. government regulation restricts the ability of monopolistically competitive
firms to change their prices. Perfectly competitive firms face no price regulation.
d. the market demand curve in a monopolistically competitive market slopes downward. The market demand curve in a perfectly competitive market is horizontal.
77) Which of the following firms does not operate in a monopolistically competitive market?
a. supermarkets
b. automobile producers
c. makers of women’s clothing
d. video stores
Table 10-3
Quantity Price
(Dollars) Total Rev¬enue
(Dollars) Total Variable Cost
(Dollars) Total Cost
(Dollars)
0 $22 $0 $0 $50
1 20 20 16 66
2 19 38 31 81
3 18 54 45 95
4 17 68 5