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2 years ago

What are the central concerns of economics?

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"<span>B) Resource use, production, and distribution of goods and services" is the correct answer. Economics is really a study of limited resources, and how people make choices. </span>

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A). The price of gasoline increased in coastal cities since gasoline was harder to find.

Explanation:

As per the principles of demand and supply, a decrease in supply while demand remains constant will cause the price to increase. In Georgia, the supply of gasoline was interrupted by the storm's effect. There was little gasoline coming in, leading to a shortage. After Electricity went off, gasoline demand must have gone high as people needed fuel for generators.

Gasoline has no close substitutes, especially when used as fuel for cars and generators. A shortage results in the scramble for the little available products. Sellers hike prices to maximize profits, and buyers are willing to pay more to get the scarce gasoline, thereby increasing its prices.

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3 years ago

On April 1, 2016, the KB Toy Company purchased equipment to be used in its manufacturing process. The equipment cost $57,200, ha

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2016 Depreciation

Dr depreciation expense $5720

Cr Accumulated depreciation $5720

2017 Depreciation

Dr depreciation expense $5720

Cr Accumulated depreciation $5720

Journal entries for 2018 expenditure

Dr repairs and maintenance $2900

Dr Equipment account $11850

Cr Cash account $14750

2018 Depreciation

Dr depreciation expense $4800.83

Cr Accumulated depreciation $4800.83

Explanation:

There are two policies for depreciating non-current asset especially when it is acquired part-way through the year like we have here, namely full year depreciation in the year of purchase and none in the year of disposal or proportional depreciation throughout the useful life,I am adopting the former in this question.

Formula for depreciation=cost-residual value/useful life

Yearly depreciation is ($57200-$0)/10=$5720

However,after two years the book value is calculated thus:

Book value=$57200-($5720*2)=$45760

additional cost incurred in enhancing the capacity of the asset would be added : $45760 +$11,850=$57610

Since the useful life has also been reviewed up to 12 years, the depreciation from now on is $57610/12=$4800.83

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3 years ago

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The option of sticking with the current business lineup makes sense when

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The correct answer is the option A: the company's present business offer attractive growth opportunities and can be counted on to create economic value for shareholders.

Explanation:

To begin with, the fact that a company faces the dilemma between continue with the current business lineup or change it in order to begin producing a new one by starting from zero then a lot of variables must be taken care of and considered, that is, that at the moment of making the final decision the managers must understand the opportunity costs that can affect the organization and moreover the benefits that the actual lineup makes. That is why, that at the time of sticking with the current business lineup it makes sense to continue with the current one when the company's present business offer attractive growth opportunities and can be counted on to create economic value for shareholders.

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3 years ago

Employees in the defense industry have greater job security and higher pay when the country is engaged in major military conflic

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Answer: C the fallacy of composition.

Explanation:

The Fallacy of Composition is meant to explain the false logic that people apply when they believe that because something is true of a subsection of something, then that thing must be true for the whole thing.

For instance, my phone's batter is made of lithium so my entire phone must be made of lithium.

In this scenario, the logic is that it is good to be involved in military conflict because it favors the nation if it favors a subset (employees in defense) which is flawed because other industries might suffer. This however, represents the fallacy of composition.

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3 years ago

What is the relationship of a single firm's demand curve in a purely competitive industry?

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Pure competition or perfect competition is where all firms have full knowledge of what is going on in the market, where there is free flow of information between not only the producers, but also with the consumers.

As such, all firms have no dominant share of market power since each individual firm is able to produce the good of the same quality and quantity (factors of production are fluid, and no costs in transportation in this theory). And at the same time, consumers have full knowledge of the quality of good they are getting and hence no firm will be able to exploit the misinformation of a good for its own profits.

This builds up to the point of a perfectly elastic demand curve, where consumers know what amount and at which price point do they value the product at. And knowing for the fact that small individual firms in a purely competitive firm have no say over prices, they become the price takers for this kind of market. Thus where MB=MC, the equilibrium point is reached and it is also at the socially optimal level since all consumers have full knowledge of the pros and cons of consuming a product (hence no externalities).

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3 years ago