Roger owns a small health store that sells vitamins in a perfectly competitive market. If vitamins sell for $12 per bottle and the average total cost per bottle is $11.50 at the profit-maximizing output level, then in the long run

When firms have an incentive to exit a competitive market, their exit will

Your younger sister needs $50 to buy a new bike. She has opened a lemonade stand to make the money she needs. Your mother is paying for all of the ingredients. She currently is charging 25 cents per cup, but she wants to adjust her price to earn the $50 faster. If you know that the demand for lemonade is elastic, what is your advice to her?

Figure 2-13 Refer to Figure 2-13. Which of the following statements is true about point G for this economy?

Scenario 13-9Ellie has been working for an engineering firm and earning an annual salary of $80,000. She decides to open her own engineering business. Her annual expenses will include $15,000 for office rent, $3,000 for equipment rental, $1,000 for supplies, $1,200 for utilities, and a $35,000 salary for a secretary/bookkeeper. Ellie will cover her start-up expenses by cashing in a $20,000 certificate of deposit on which she was earning annual interest of $500. Refer to Scenario 13-9. Ellie’s annual accounting costs will equal

If duopolists individually pursue their own self-interest when deciding how much to produce, the profit-maximizing price they will charge for their product will be

Suppose that a tax is placed on books. If the buyers pay the majority of the tax, then we know that the

The tax burden will fall most heavily on sellers of the good when the demand curve

Suppose that a firm has only one variable input, labor, and firm output is zero when labor is zero. When the firm hires 6 workers the firm produces 90 units of output. Fixed costs of production are $6 and the variable cost per unit of labor is $10. The marginal product of the seventh unit of labor is 4. Given this information, what is the average total cost of production when the firm hires 7 workers?

Belarus has a comparative advantage in the production of linen, but Russia has an absolute advantage in the production of linen. If these two countries decide to trade,