If crop dusting on your farm causes your neighbors to have sore throats, then crop dusting is creating

A) only explicit costs.
B) opportunity costs.
C) external costs.
D) internal costs.

C

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If the utility function (U) between food (F) and clothing (C) can be represented as U = , the marginal rate of substitution of clothing for food equals

A) -C/F. B) -F/C. C) - . D) - .

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If labor is 80 percent of total costs in industry A and 20 percent in industry B, then other things equal, we would expect the elasticity of demand for labor to be

A) greater in industry A than in industry B. B) greater in industry B than in industry A. C) the same in both industries. D) uncertain since no general relationship exists between cost shares and elasticities.

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