Answer:
a. $300,000
b. $200,000
Explanation:
a. The opportunity cost for labor is calculated by multiplying the hours of labor needed to complete the project with the market wage rate.
20,000 hours * $15 per hour = $300,000
b. There are some labors that are unemployed and has agreed to work for $10 per hour. The opportunity cost will now be lower than the previously calculated
20,000 hours * $10 per hour = $200,000
c. The opportunity cost depends on the wage rate of the labor. When the labors are employed at market rate, the opportunity cost is high and when there is unemployment the labors are willing to work for lower wage rate. The opportunity cost is decreased.
Answer: It will cause the demand curve to move inwards to the left
Explanation:
An increase in the price of a good will cause a decrease in the quantity demanded. This is in line with the law of demand that states that the higher the price the lower the quantity of goods that will be demanded.
Answer:
(A) The gains of the consumers from buying imports at the low price subsidized by foreign governments would exceed the losses of domestic producers.
The Unfair-Competition Argument
(B) Companies may exaggerate the degree to which their products are essential to national defense in order to obtain protection from foreign competition at the expense of consumers.
The Protection-as-a-Bargaining-Chip Argument
(C) The country may be forced into deciding between implementing trade restrictions as threatened, which would make the society as a whole worse off, or backing down on its own threat, which would cause it to lose credibility in foreign affairs.
The Infant-Industry Argument
(D) Opening up to free trade may impose hardship on some workers in the short run, but it also creates jobs in industries in which the country has a comparative advantage and enables the country as a whole to enjoy a higher standard of living.
The Jobs Argument
Explanation:
Explanation:
The computation is shown below:
Year Depreciation Book value
0 $1,200,000
1 $125,000 $1,075,000
2 $125,000 $950,000
3 $125,000 $825,000
4 $125,000 $700,000
5 $125,000 $575,000
6 $125,000 $450,000
7 $125,000 $325,000
8 $125,000 $200,000
The depreciation expense is
= ($1,200,000 - $200,000) ÷ (8 years)
= $125,000
