Given that income is $200 and the price of good Y is $40. What is the vertical intercept of the budget line?
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- 5
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Managerial Economics
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Quizzes in Managerial Economics
The upper boundary of the budget set is the:
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- Budget line
What is the maximum amount of good Y that can be purchased if X and Y are the only two goods available for purchase and PX = $5, PY = $10, X = 20, and M = 500?
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- 40
The combinations of goods X and Y that are affordable to the consumer are defined by the:
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- Budget set
The idea that a consumer is limited to selecting a bundle of goods that is affordable is captured by the:
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- Budget constraint
The property that rules out indifference curves that cross is:
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- Transitivity
The property that implies that indifference curves are convex to the origin is:
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- Diminishing marginal rate of substitution
An increase in the price of good X will have what effect on the budget line on a normal X-Y graph?
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- Decrease the horizontal intercept
The absolute value of the slope of the indifference curve is called the:
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- Marginal rate of substitution
The affordable bundle that yields the greatest satisfaction to the consumer is:
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- The equilibrium consumption bundle
A situation where a consumer says he does not know his preference ordering for bundlesX and Y would violate the property of:
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- Completeness
The possible goods and services a consumer can afford to consume represents the:
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- Consumer opportunities
What is/are the important things that must be developed when characterizing consumer behavior?
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- Consumer preferences and consumer opportunities
Individuals who purchase services and goods for the purpose of consumption are:
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- Consumers
If the price of good X is $10 and the price of good Y is $5, how much of good X would the consumer purchase if her income is $15?
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- Cannot tell based on the above information
Which of the following is true?
- Indifference curves may intersect
- At a point of consumer equilibrium, the MRS equals 1
- If income increases, a consumer will always consume more of a good
- None of the statements associated with this question are correct
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- None of the statements associated with this question are correct
Joe prefers a three pack of soda to a six-pack. What properties does this preference violate?
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- More is better
The difference between a price decrease and an increase in income is that
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- An increase in income does not affect the slope of the budget line while a decrease in price does change the slope
Suppose a consumer with an income of $100 who is faced with PX = 1 and PY = 1/2. What is the market rate of substitution between good X (horizontal axis) and good Y (vertical axis)?
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- -2.0
A firm derives revenue from two sources: goods X and Y. Annual revenues from good X and Y are $10,000 and $20,000, respectively. If the price elasticity of demand for good X is -2.0 and the cross-price elasticity of demand between Y and X is 1.5 then a 4 percent price increase will
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- Increase total revenues from X and Y by $800