Suppose that the Fed undertakes an open market sale, selling $3 million worth of securities to a bank. If the required reserve ratio is 11%, checkable deposits (or the money supply), would _______________ by ________________ million, assuming that there are no cash leakages and that banks hold zero excess reserves

You view tea and scones as perfect complements, and the corners of the indifference curves lie on the 45-degree line. Tea is plotted along the horizontal axis of the indifference map

Also, at your current point of consumption, you have not fully exhausted the available budget, and you consume more tea than scones. Based on this information, which of the following statements is NOT true? A) The marginal utility of tea equals zero for your current consumption bundle. B) The marginal utility of scones equals zero for your current consumption bundle. C) To reach the point of optimal consumption, you must increase your scone consumption. D) The equal marginal principle does not have to be satisfied at the optimal consumption point for this problem.

As long as output increases

A. average total costs decrease. B. average fixed costs decrease. C. average variable costs decrease. D. marginal costs decrease.