Suppose the Bureau of Labor Statistics interviews 196,700 people in its monthly survey; 94,500 are not in the labor force, 91,150 are employed, 8,870 are unemployed, and 2,180 are in the armed forces

What is the unemployment rate the BLS announces? A) 8.87 percent
B) 9.73 percent
C) 9.39 percent
D) 4.51 percent
E) 10.81 percent

A

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a. industry output will fall, good B will fall in price, and economic profits will tend to disappear. b. industry output will fall, good B will rise in price, and economic profits will tend to disappear. c. industry output will rise, good B will fall in price, and economic profits will tend to disappear. d. industry output will rise, good B will fall in price, and economic profits will tend to increase.

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An economy may be operating at a point inside the production possibilities curve if: a. technological progress enables the economy to produce quantities of output otherwise unattainable. b. a substantial amount of labor is unemployed

c. a substantial amount of machinery is idle. d. either b. or c. occur.

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