<span>The answer is C. Productivity is the ratio of outputs to inputs.
This answer is correct because productivity is a measure of efficiency, and is not a measure of quantity, profit (revenue), or quality. Productivity is the measure of effectiveness in converting inputs to outputs.</span>
Answer:
A) Outsourcing
Explanation:
Outsourcing refers to a business practice where a company gets some of the intermediate goods or services it needs from external suppliers (other companies). Usually outsourcing is carried on by companies in order to reduce costs, e.g. customer service calls handled by Indian companies because Indian workers earn a much lower salary than American workers.
Answer:
The correct answer is option d.
Explanation:
A monopoly is a market structure where there is a single firm in the market with no close substitutes. The firm is a price maker. There is high barriers to entry in the market.
Similar to monopoly other imperfect competition such as monopolistic competition and oligopoly also have barriers to entry, and are price makers. But the firms in such markets have different demand curve than the market demand curve.
But in a monopoly there is only single firm, so the market demand curve is the same as individual firm's demand curve.
Answer:
a. budget constraint intersects the vertical axis at 25 beers.
Explanation:
A budget constraint shows all the combinations that a consumer might purchase of two given products or services. The total consumption can be represented by a consumption possibilities frontier curve:
- originally you could purchase 50 beers or 5 hot wings
- then as the price of beer increases to $2, you can only buy 25 beers or 5 hot wings
