Your local farmer has many competitors and exists in a market structure known as perfect competition
This means that price is determined outside of the individual farmer's ability to charge a price higher than the going market for a bushel of wheat, hence the farmer is A) a price maker and can therefore charge different customers different prices.
B) always able to price produce above the competition and earn a larger profit.
C) never able to determine any prices he charges for anything, such as soybeans.
D) a price taker and cannot affect the market price of wheat.
D
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Suppose there are 100 consumers with identical individual demand curves. When the price of a movie ticket is $8, the quantity demanded for each person is 5 . When the price is $4, the quantity demanded for each person is 9 . Assuming the law of demand holds, which of the following choices is the most likely quantity demanded in the market when the price is $6?
a. 700 b. 1,200 c. 400 d. 1,000 e. 100
A notable macroeconomic effect of the bursting U.S. housing bubble in 2007 was a
A. dramatic contraction of aggregate consumption spending. B. marked expansion in the construction sector of the economy. C. modest reduction in Real GDP growth of one percentage point. D. all of the options are correct.