Which person has the highest opportunity cost of obtaining a college degree (assuming that attending college requires giving up his or her current position)?
a. Bill, who is unemployed.
b. Jane, who is an unwed mother and earns $15,000 a year.
c. Larry, who is a technician in the Navy earning $18,000 a year with free food and housing.
d. Mary, who has a job earning $60,000 a year as a computer programmer.
e. Unable to determine from the data given.
d
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Which of the following is the best example of the substitution effect?
a. Joe buys fewer apples and more oranges as the result of an increase in the price of apples. b. Joe buys more apples when his income increases. c. Joe buys an apple slicer when the price of apples decreases. d. Joe buys less sugar as the result of an increase in price of apples.
If a household's income falls from $20,000 to $17,000 and its consumption spending falls from $18,000 to $15,000, then its: a. marginal propensity to consume is ?0.67. b. marginal propensity to consume is 0.88. c. marginal propensity to consume is 0.20. d. marginal propensity to save is 0
e. marginal propensity to save is 0.12.