Chapter 1: Q. d - For Critical Thinking (page 8)
In what way do small talk and gossip represent the use of simplifying assumptions?
Small talk and gossips make the work smaller and are used to simplify assumptions.
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For each of the following items, state whether a direct or an inverse relationship is likely to exist.
(a) The number of hours you study for an exam and your exam score.
(b) The price of pizza and the quantity purchased.
(c) The number of games the university basketball team won last year and the number of season tickets sold this year.
Does the phrase “unlimited wants and limited resources” apply to both a low-income household and a middle-income household? Can the same phrase be applied to a very high-income household?
Given the function , complete the following schedule and plot the curve.
| y | x |
| -4 | |
| -2 | |
| 0 | |
| 2 | |
| 4 |
Recently, a bank was trying to decide what fee to charge for “expedited payments”—payments that the bank would transmit extra-speedily to enable customers to avoid late fees on cable TV bills, electric bills, and the like. To try to determine what fee customers were willing to pay for expedited payments, the bank conducted a survey. It was able to determine that many of the people surveyed already paid fees for expedited payment services that exceeded the maximum fees that they said they were willing to pay. How does the bank’s finding relate to economists’ traditional focus on what people do, rather than what they say they will do?
Based on your answer to Problems 1–12, categorize each of the following conclusions as being the result of positive analysis or normative analysis.
(a) A higher minimum wage will reduce employment opportunities for minimum wage workers.
(b) Increasing the earnings of minimum wage employees is desirable, and raising the minimum wage is the best way to accomplish this.
(c) Everyone should enjoy open access to health care at no explicit charge.
(d) Heath care subsidies will increase the consumption of health care.
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