The above figure shows a labor market with a minimum wage of $8 an hour. How many people are employed when the minimum wage is in place?
A) 40,000
B) 60,000
C) 80,000
D) fewer than 40,000
E) more than 80,000
A
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Suppose that there are only two types of used cars, peaches and lemons. Peaches are worth $10,000 and lemons are worth $4,000. Without effective signals such as warranties, the owners of peaches cannot sell their cars for $10,000 because the
A) owners of peaches cannot convince buyers that their cars are worth $10,000. B) buyers cannot convince owners of peaches to sell their cars for $10,000. C) owners of lemons cannot convince buyers that their cars are worth more than $4,000. D) buyers cannot convince owners of lemons to sell their cars for $4,000.
If a perfectly competitive firm manufacturing chairs decides to produce 100 more chairs, what happens to the market price of a chair?
What will be an ideal response?