15 1.  10 is shopping for mixers (capital) for his bakery. Each mixer costs $40. Assume this is a perfectly competitive market. a. Fill in the “Total Capital Cost” and “Marginal Resource Cost” columns in the table below. Henry's Capital Cost Capital  (mixers) Total  Capital Cost  (dollars)  Marginal  Resource Cost  (dollars) 0 $0 — 1 $ 2 3 4 5 6 7 b. Graph the marginal resource cost of capital for Henry's business. Instructions: Use the tool provided 'MRC Curve' to plot the line point by point (7 points total). 2. Henry can purchase mixers (capital) for his bakery, where he makes loaves of bread. The productivity and revenue generated by additional mixers is presented in the table below. Assume this is a perfectly competitive market. Capital Productivity Capital  (mixers) Total  Product  (loaves of bread) Marginal  Product  (loaves of bread) Price  (dollars) Total  Revenue  (dollars) Marginal  Revenue Product  (dollars)  0   0 — $5 $  0 — 1 11 11   5   55 $55 2 20   9   5 100   45 3 28   8   5 140   40 4 34   6   5 170   30 5 38   4   5 190   20 6 40   2   5 200   10 7 41   1   5 205     5 a. Graph Henry's demand for capital based on the information in the table above. Draw the marginal resource cost (MRC) curve if the price for a mixer is $30.    Instructions: Use the tools provided 'Demand for Capital' and 'MRC Curve' to plot each line point by point (7 points total for each line). b. How much capital does Henry demand given the current price of mixers? 5 mixers 4 mixers 3 mixers 2 mixers 3.  Billy is hiring workers to help him install solar panels. The table below presents the marginal product (in terms of solar panels installed per week) of various workers. Assume this is a perfectly competitive market. Labor Productivity and Marginal Revenue Product for Solar Panel Installation Labor (workers) Marginal Product (solar panels) Marginal Revenue  Product for P = $50 (dollars) Marginal Revenue  Product for P = $100 (dollars) Marginal Revenue  Product for P = $150 (dollars) 1 14 $ $ $ 2 12 3 10 4   8 5   6 6   4 7   2 a. What is the marginal revenue product of each worker if the current market price to install one solar panel is $50? What if the current market price is $100? $150? Using the table above, fill in the “Marginal Revenue Product” columns.  b. Graph the three marginal revenue product curves (for prices of $50, $100, and $150) based on your answers to part a. Instructions: Use the tools provided 'MRP (P = $50),' 'MRP (P = $100),' and 'MRP (P = $150)' to plot each line point by point (7 points total for each line). 4. Alfonso wants to know what the cost of living would be in four different cities. He looks at circular ads from each of the cities and finds the prices of goods that he would normally buy during a typical trip to the grocery store each week. He adds up what he would pay for each grocery trip in the different cities and calls the sum “Price of Grocery Basket ...

1. 15
1.
10 is shopping for mixers (capital) for his bakery. Each mixer
costs $40. Assume this is a perfectly competitive market.
a. Fill in the “Total Capital Cost” and “Marginal Resource
Cost” columns in the table below.
Henry's Capital Cost
Capital
(mixers)
Total
Capital Cost
(dollars)
Marginal
Resource Cost
(dollars)
0
$0
—
1
$
2
3
4

2. 5
6
7
b. Graph the marginal resource cost of capital for Henry's
business.
Instructions: Use the tool provided 'MRC Curve' to plot the line
point by point (7 points total).
2.
Henry can purchase mixers (capital) for his bakery, where he
makes loaves of bread. The productivity and revenue generated
by additional mixers is presented in the table below. Assume
this is a perfectly competitive market.
Capital Productivity
Capital
(mixers)
Total
Product
(loaves of bread)
Marginal
Product
(loaves of bread)
Price

3. (dollars)
Total
Revenue
(dollars)
Marginal
Revenue Product
(dollars)
0
0
—
$5
$ 0
—
1
11
11
5
55
$55
2
20
9
5
100
45
3
28
8
5
140
40
4
34
6
5
170

4. 30
5
38
4
5
190
20
6
40
2
5
200
10
7
41
1
5
205
5
a. Graph Henry's demand for capital based on the information in
the table above. Draw the marginal resource cost (MRC) curve
if the price for a mixer is $30.
Instructions: Use the tools provided 'Demand for Capital' and
'MRC Curve' to plot each line point by point (7 points total for
each line).
b. How much capital does Henry demand given the current price
of mixers?
5 mixers

5. 4 mixers
3 mixers
2 mixers
3.
Billy is hiring workers to help him install solar panels. The
table below presents the marginal product (in terms of solar
panels installed per week) of various workers. Assume this is a
perfectly competitive market.
Labor Productivity and Marginal Revenue Product for Solar
Panel Installation
Labor
(workers)
Marginal
Product
(solar panels)
Marginal Revenue
Product
for P = $50
(dollars)
Marginal Revenue
Product
for P = $100
(dollars)
Marginal Revenue
Product
for P = $150
(dollars)
1
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$
$
2
12
3
10
4
8
5
6
6
4
7
2

7. a. What is the marginal revenue product of each worker if the
current market price to install one solar panel is $50? What if
the current market price is $100? $150? Using the table above,
fill in the “Marginal Revenue Product” columns.
b. Graph the three marginal revenue product curves (for prices
of $50, $100, and $150) based on your answers to part a.
Instructions: Use the tools provided 'MRP (P = $50),' 'MRP (P =
$100),' and 'MRP (P = $150)' to plot each line point by point (7
points total for each line).
4.
Alfonso wants to know what the cost of living would be in four
different cities. He looks at circular ads from each of the cities
and finds the prices of goods that he would normally buy during
a typical trip to the grocery store each week. He adds up what
he would pay for each grocery trip in the different cities and
calls the sum “Price of Grocery Basket.” He compares theses
costs to what he would earn in each city.
Compute Alfonso’s real wage in terms of how many baskets of
groceries his wage could purchase and complete the “Real
Wage” column with this information.
Instructions: Round your answers to whole numbers.
Alfonso’s Nominal and Real Wages
City
Price of Grocery Basket
(dollars)
Nominal Wage
(dollars)

8. Real Wage
(baskets of groceries)
Boston
$187.17
$56,000
Pittsburgh
174.74
50,000
Minneapolis
169.62
55,000
Houston
155.00
45,000
5.
Stephanie is considering how many workers she wants to hire to
produce earrings for her business. She sells each pair of
earrings she produces for $5.00. The table below shows the
productivity of workers that Stephanie might hire. Assume this
is a perfectly competitive market.
a. Fill in the “Marginal Product,” “Total Revenue,” and
“Marginal Revenue Product” columns.
Stephanie's Production and Revenue
Labor
(workers)
Total
Product

9. (pairs of earrings)
Marginal
Product
(pairs of earrings)
Price
(dollars)
Total
Revenue
(dollars)
Marginal
Revenue Product
(dollars)
0
0
—
$5
$0
—
1
11
5
$
2
20
5
3
28
5

10. 4
34
5
5
38
5
6
40
5
7
41
5
b. Graph Stephanie's demand for labor based on the information
in the table above.
Instructions: Use the tool provided 'Demand for Labor' to plot
the line point by point (7 points total).
c. If the wage rate is $20, how much labor does Stephanie

11. demand?
6.
Which of the following scenarios would result in a decrease in
the wage rate of solar panel installers and a decrease in the
quantity of solar panel installers employed in Billy’s town?
Wages of solar panel installers increase in another town and
attract workers away from Billy’s town.
A solar panel company shuts down in another town and solar
panel installers try to find jobs in Billy’s town.
A decrease in people’s income decreases the demand for solar
panels.
An increase in the demand for solar panels raises the price of
each installation.
7.
What is one difference between a firm in a perfectly
competitive industry and a firm in a monopolistically
competitive industry?
A monopolistically competitive firm does not have the exact
same product as other firms.
A monopolistically competitive firm does not choose a level of
output where marginal cost is equal to marginal revenue.

12. A monopolistically competitive industry does not have a large
number of sellers.
A monopolistically competitive firm does not face entry from
other firms.
8.
Compared to a perfectly competitive market, a monopolistically
competitive market:
is more efficient and offers fewer choices to customers.
is more efficient and offers more choices to customers.
is less efficient and offers more choices to customers.
is less efficient and offers fewer choices to customers.
9.
A monopolistically competitive market can do this because:
it produces differentiated products that are similar but produces
a smaller quantity overall compared to a perfectly competitive
market.
it produces differentiated products that are similar and produces
a larger quantity overall than perfectly competitive markets.
it produces the same products between firms but produces a
smaller quantity overall compared to a perfectly competitive
market.
it produces the same products between firms but produces a

13. larger quantity overall compared to a perfectly competitive
market.
10.
Acme Anvils has a newly patented anvil that is ready for the
market. While there are plenty of other anvil producers, Acme’s
anvils are unique. Past models have been featured in a number
of animated short films over the years. The weekly demand and
cost information for Acme Anvils are described in the graph
below.
a. To maximize its profits, Acme should produce and charge a
price of per anvil.
b. At its profit-maximizing level, Acme's weekly profits are per
week.
c. Even though Acme has a patent on its particular type of anvil,
there are many other potential anvil makers out there. Which of
the following is most likely to happen in the long run?
Other firms will copy Acme’s anvils exactly and hope they do
not get caught for violating Acme’s patent.
Other firms will look for other innovations to try to capture
some of Acme’s profits.
Other firms will leave the market because of Acme’s patent.
Other firms will simply take Acme’s price as being the market
price and sell as many anvils as they can at that price.

14. 11.
Use the following table to answer the question below.
Giovanni's Production Possibilities Schedule
Jorge's Production Possibilities Schedule
Pounds of Green Beans
Pounds of Corn
Pounds of Green Beans
Pounds of Corn
0
160
0
320
40
120
20
240
80
80
40
160
120
40
60
80
160
0
80
0
If Giovanni and Jorge both specialize in the production of their
respective low-cost goods, then the total production of corn
equals ______ pounds and the total production of green beans
equals _____ pounds
A) 160, 160

15. B) 320, 320
C) 160, 320
D) 320, 160
12.
Gains from specialization and mutually beneficial trade
_________ wealth or well-being.
A) decreases
B) increases
C) dilutes
D) moderates
Top of Form
Top of Form
13.
An industry in which the firm’s cost structures do not vary with
changes in production will have a long-run supply curve that
A) is perfectly inelastic.
B) is perfectly elastic.
C) slopes upward.
D) slopes downward.
14.
Use the following graph to answer the next question.
At its short-run equilibrium, this pure monopoly generates
A) an economic profit.
B) a normal profit.
C) a loss.
D) zero revenue.
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
15.
Which of the following scenarios would lead to an increase in
the demand for mixers at Henry’s bread bakery?

16. The market price of mixers decreases.
The market price of bread increases.
The wage rate of labor (a substitute for capital) decreases.
The productivity of mixers decreases.
16.
Suchin owns a specialty T-shirt shop in a college town where
she makes custom design shirts. The weekly demand for her
shirts and her cost curves are below.
a. Suchin's profit-maximizing quantity of T-shirts is shirts per
week.
b. Suchin should charge per T-shirt to maximize profits.
c. Suchin will make an economic profit of per week.
d. The allocatively efficient number of T-shirts for Suchin to
produce is T-shirts.
e. If the population of college students increases, and Suchin's
costs do not change, Suchin would expect the demand for her
shirts to and her profits to .
f. If the market for T-shirts is monopolistically competitive, an
increase in the student population will lead to:
product choice decreasing.

17. productive efficiency increasing.
T-shirt companies entering the market.
T-shirt companies leaving the market.
17.
Specialization implies that an individual should produce the
good for which he/she has the _____________ opportunity cost.
A) highest
B) lowest
C) necessary
D) general
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
Top of Form
18.
Use the following graph to answer the next question.
If the industry were served by a pure monopoly, the deadweight
loss would be the area
A) AEF.
B) ACB.
C) ACE.
D) This can’t be determined with the information provided in
the graph
19.
Stephanie is looking to hire workers to help her produce
earrings. The current hourly market wage is $10 per worker.
Assume this is a perfectly competitive market.

18. a. Fill in the “Total Labor Cost” and “Marginal Resource Cost”
columns in the table below.
Stephanie's Labor Cost
Labor
(workers)
Total
Labor Cost
(dollars)
Marginal
Resource Cost
(dollars)
0
$0
—
1
$
2
3
4
5
6
7

19. b. Graph the marginal resource cost of labor for Stephanie's
business.
Instructions: Use the tool provided 'MRC Curve' to plot the
line point by point (7 points total).
20.
Ronnie owns a cookie store. He has carefully recorded the
number of cookies that his shop can produce per day with
different numbers of workers. The table below shows the
different number of workers and the “Total Product” column
shows their output. The current market price for Ronnie’s
cookies is $0.50 per cookie. Assume this is a perfectly
competitive market.
a. Fill in the “Marginal Product,” “Total Revenue,” and
“Marginal Revenue Product” columns.
Ronnie's Production and Revenue
Labor
(workers)
Total Product
(cookies)
Marginal
Product
(cookies)
Price
(dollars)
Total
Revenue

20. (dollars)
Marginal
Revenue Product
(dollars)
0
0
—
$0.50
$0
—
1
100
0.50
$
2
180
0.50
3
240
0.50
4
280
0.50
5
300

21. 0.50
b. Graph Ronnie's demand for labor based on the information in
the table above.
Instructions: Use the tool provided 'Demand for Labor' to plot
the line point by point (5 points total)
21.
Which of the following scenarios would lead to an increase in
the demand for labor at Ronnie’s cookie shop?
The cost of capital (a substitute for labor) decreases.
The price of cookies decreases.
Labor productivity increases.
The wage rate increases.
Top of Form
22.
Andrei opens a small Russian tea room in downtown
Minneapolis. He advertises that he uses a secret blend of exotic
tea leaves to make his unique tea. The daily demand for cups of
his Russian tea is described in the table below.
Demand for Andrei's Russian Tea
Price

22. (dollars)
Quantity of Tea
Demanded
(cups)
$5.00
0
4.50
10
4.00
20
3.50
30
3.00
40
2.50
50
2.00
60
1.50
70
a. Examine the four tables below, tables A–D.
Table A
Table B
Table C
Table D
Price
(dollars)
Quantity of Tea

23. Demanded
(cups)
Price
(dollars)
Quantity of Tea
Demanded
(cups)
Price
(dollars)
Quantity of Tea
Demanded
(cups)
Price
(dollars)
Quantity of Tea
Demanded
(cups)
$6.00
0
$5.00
5
$4.00
0
$5.50
0
5.70
10

24. 4.70
20
3.50
10
5.00
10
5.40
20
4.40
35
3.00
20
4.50
20
5.10
30
4.10
50
2.50
30
4.00
30
4.80
40
3.80
65

25. 2.00
40
3.50
40
4.50
50
3.50
80
1.50
50
3.00
50
4.20
60
3.20
95
1.00
60
2.50
60
3.90
70
2.90
110
0.50
70

26. 2.00
70
Which table best represents what is likely to happen to the
demand for Andrei's tea if other immigrants from Russia also
open tea rooms in Minneapolis?
Table A
Table B
Table C
Table D
b. Which of the following scenarios is most likely to increase
the demand for Andrei’s tea and make it less elastic?
Andrei’s family members also move to Minneapolis and open
tea rooms with the same secret blend of tea leaves.
The price of coffee, a substitute for tea, rises dramatically.
A newspaper article accuses all Russian tea rooms of using
ordinary tea rather than the exotic tea they claim to use.
Andrei’s tea wins the “Best Tea in the Midwest” award in Tea
Lover’s Digest.
23.
Use the following table to answer the question below.
Jake's Production Possibilities Schedule
Jane's Production Possibilities Schedule

27. Pounds of Green Beans
Pounds of Corn
Pounds of Green Beans
Pounds of Corn
0
160
0
80
10
120
20
60
20
80
40
40
30
40
60
20
40
0
80
0
Jake should specialize in the production of which good?
A) corn
B) green beans
C) both
D) neither
24.
A pure monopoly will generate an economic profit whenever
A) total revenue is less than total cost.

28. B) total revenue is equal to total cost.
C) total revenue is greater than total cost.
D) price is greater than average variable cost.
25.
When compared with a perfectly competitive market with
identical costs of production, a pure monopoly will produce
A) more output and charge the same price.
B) more output and charge a higher price.
C) less output and charge a higher price.
D) less output and charge the same price.
26.
A point inside the production possibilities frontier is _______
while a point outside the frontier is ________.
a) attainable; unattainable
b) unattainable; attainable
c) below the maximum possible; the maximum possible
d) the maximum possible; below the maximum possible
27.
Economic analysis assumes "rational or purposeful behavior,"
which means that people will pursue decisions or actions
a) that will increase their well-being.
b) always based on full or complete information.
c) with minimal consideration for their emotions.
d) without any logical faults.
11
55

29. 9
100
45
8
140
40
6
170
30
4
190
20
2
200
10
1
205
5

30. (Click to select)