Topic: The Production Process and Costs Quiz ( MCQ and Answer )
You are the manager of a popular shoe company. You know that the advertising elasticity of demand for your product is 0.15. How much will you have to increase advertising in order to increase demand by 10%?
Suppose demand is given by QX d = 50 – 4PX + 6PY + AX , where PX = $4, PY = $2, and AX = $50. What is the quantity demanded of good X?
Suppose demand is given by QX d = 50 – 4PX + 6PY + AX, where PX = $4, PY = $2, and AX = $50. What is the advertising elasticity of demand for good X?
You are the manager of a supermarket and know that the income elasticity of peanut butter is exactly -0.7. Due to the recession, you expect incomes to drop by 15% next year. How should you adjust your purchase of peanut butter?
Suppose the demand function is QX d = 100 – 8PX + 6PY – M. If PX = $4, PY = $2, and M = $10, what is the cross-price elasticity of good x with respect to the price of good y?
If the price of pork chops falls from $8 to $6, and this leads to an increase in demand for apple sauce from 100 to 140 jars, what is the cross price-elasticity of apple sauce and pork chops at a pork chop price of $6?
If the cross-price elasticity between ketchup and hamburgers is -1.2, a 4% increase in the price of ketchup will lead to a 4.8% ____?
Suppose QX d = 10,000 – 2 PX + 3 PY – 4.5M , where PX = $100, PY = $50, and M = $2,000. Then good X has a demand which is: