The demand for diet soft drinks (as a group) is relatively inelastic because
A) there are many of them on the market.
B) there are few substitutes.
C) the purchase of a soft drink represents a large portion of a person's budget.
D) none of the above.
B
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Which of the following is true?
A) Employment and unemployment are both coincident with the business cycle. B) Employment and unemployment are both procyclical. C) Employment is procyclical and unemployment is coincident with the business cycle. D) Employment is procyclical and unemployment is countercyclical.
Long-run equilibrium in the goods and services market requires that decision makers who agreed to long-term contracts must have
a. incorrectly anticipated the level of prices when they made the agreements. b. correctly anticipated the level of prices when they made the agreements. c. correctly anticipated the natural rate of unemployment when they made the agreements. d. correctly anticipated actual GDP when they made the agreements.