If you have $10,000 to start a lawn-cutting business, the interest rate is 4 percent, your cost of equipment is $3,000, and the earnings you sacrifice from working at another job are $32,000, your yearly cost of doing business would be

The quantity of labor supplied increases as the real wage rises because

A) higher real wages mean that nominal wages have increased. B) the opportunity cost of working increases. C) the quantity of labor demanded increases. D) labor force participation decreases so that only serious workers are left in the labor force. E) the opportunity cost of leisure rises.

The elasticity of demand is used to

A) determine if consumers will or will not buy a product. B) measure how responsive consumers are to a change in price. C) determine in what direction the demand curve shifts if income changes. D) find the market equilibrium. E) determine if a change in price results in a shortage or a surplus.