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U.S. Economy

Which comparison correctly describes manufacturing and health care output?

  • Both produce only physical cars
  • Manufacturing produces goods, while health care largely provides services
  • Health care can never count toward GDP
  • Neither generates value added
Correct answer(s):
  • Manufacturing produces goods, while health care largely provides services
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U.S. Economy

Why is manufacturing value added different from the total sales of manufactured products?

  • Intermediate inputs must not be counted repeatedly as new output
  • GDP counts only export prices
  • Sales and value added are identical by definition
  • Value added is always greater than every sales total
Correct answer(s):
  • Intermediate inputs must not be counted repeatedly as new output
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U.S. Economy

Why might New Jersey’s largest-employment industry not be its largest-GDP industry?

  • Only manufacturing creates GDP
  • All industries have identical worker productivity
  • GDP never includes services
  • Industries vary in output per worker
Correct answer(s):
  • Industries vary in output per worker
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U.S. Economy

Which activities commonly gain from busy New Jersey seaports?

  • Only inland cattle ranching
  • Only mountain skiing
  • Freight handling, trucking, rail transport, storage, and services
  • Only offshore fishing
Correct answer(s):
  • Freight handling, trucking, rail transport, storage, and services
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U.S. Economy

What happens in an intermodal freight network?

  • Each shipment avoids inland markets
  • Goods transfer among ships, trains, and trucks
  • Containers never change transport modes
  • Cargo is carried only by air balloons
Correct answer(s):
  • Goods transfer among ships, trains, and trucks
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U.S. Economy

What does a five-year ACS income estimate use?

  • Survey data pooled across multiple years
  • Only the decennial population count
  • Only a single business tax form
  • One individual paycheck from one month
Correct answer(s):
  • Survey data pooled across multiple years
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U.S. Economy

Why can air cargo and seaports both be useful in one regional economy?

  • They suit different cargo urgency, costs, and shipment types
  • They always transport exactly the same goods at the same speed
  • Seaports connect no markets
  • Air cargo can carry only passengers
Correct answer(s):
  • They suit different cargo urgency, costs, and shipment types
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U.S. Economy

How should a monthly employment estimate be reported?

  • As if it were a ten-year average
  • As a guaranteed permanent value
  • Without any time reference
  • With its month and whether preliminary or revised
Correct answer(s):
  • With its month and whether preliminary or revised
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U.S. Economy

Why can New Jersey residents’ earnings differ from output produced inside the state?

  • State GDP is always identical to wages
  • All workers must live where they work
  • Commuting has been outlawed
  • Some residents work in New York or Pennsylvania
Correct answer(s):
  • Some residents work in New York or Pennsylvania
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U.S. Economy

What does nonfarm payroll employment count?

  • Every person living in the state
  • Only unemployed residents
  • Jobs reported on nonfarm employers’ payrolls
  • Only unpaid family labor
Correct answer(s):
  • Jobs reported on nonfarm employers' payrolls
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U.S. Economy

What is one economic benefit of dense regional markets and transport links?

  • Automatic elimination of every business cost
  • Guarantee of zero congestion
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers
  • Permanent price controls
Correct answer(s):
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers
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U.S. Economy

How is the unemployment rate calculated?

  • All employed workers divided by state GDP
  • Unemployed labor-force participants divided by the civilian labor force
  • Unemployed people divided by all residents including children
  • Workers in manufacturing divided by total land
Correct answer(s):
  • Unemployed labor-force participants divided by the civilian labor force
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U.S. Economy

What is a potential cost of intense development along New Jersey’s transport corridors?

  • No demand for infrastructure
  • Higher land costs and congestion
  • Elimination of all commute times
  • Unlimited free land
Correct answer(s):
  • Higher land costs and congestion
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U.S. Economy

What was New Jersey’s revised calendar-year nominal GDP in 2024?

  • About $846.6 billion
  • About $68.8 billion
  • About $200 billion
  • About $1.4 trillion
Correct answer(s):
  • About $846.6 billion
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U.S. Economy

Which amount approximated New Jersey’s revised 2023 nominal GDP?

  • $7.9 trillion
  • $2.8 trillion
  • $97.9 billion
  • $797.9 billion
Correct answer(s):
  • $797.9 billion
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U.S. Economy

How much did New Jersey’s revised nominal GDP grow from 2024 to 2025?

  • About 49 percent
  • About 24 percent
  • About 4.9 percent
  • About 0.49 percent
Correct answer(s):
  • About 4.9 percent
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U.S. Economy

What was New Jersey’s revised 2025 real GDP in chained 2017 dollars?

  • About $1.69 trillion
  • About $688.8 billion
  • About $68.8 million
  • About $887.8 trillion
Correct answer(s):
  • About $688.8 billion
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U.S. Economy

What was New Jersey’s revised 2024 real GDP in chained 2017 dollars?

  • About $675.2 billion
  • About $1.675 trillion
  • About $75.2 billion
  • About $875.2 trillion
Correct answer(s):
  • About $675.2 billion
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U.S. Economy

Approximately how much did New Jersey’s revised real GDP grow from 2024 to 2025?

  • 20 percent
  • 50 percent
  • 9 percent
  • 2.0 percent
Correct answer(s):
  • 2.0 percent
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U.S. Economy

Why can nominal GDP and real GDP grow at different rates?

  • Only nominal GDP can include manufacturing
  • Real GDP counts residents while nominal GDP counts counties
  • Prices and measurement adjustments affect the comparison
  • Both measure only wages
Correct answer(s):
  • Prices and measurement adjustments affect the comparison
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