"Real Wages" are wages that are adjusted for inflation and rising prices. As prices rise, people are able to buy less and less with their "nominal" (aka un-adjusted) wages.
One example is gas for your car. If you make $1000 a month and gas goes up from $2.50 to $3, your un-adjusted wages stay the same (you still make $1000) but you can't buy as much of other things because your "real" wages have effectively gone down due to the price increase of gas.
Answer:
b. small percentage changes in the price will lead to much larger percentage changes in the quantity demanded.
Explanation:
Price elasticity of demand is a measure of how responsive is quantity demanded to change in price. Its formula is given by:
= 
= % Change in Quantity Demanded / % Change in Price
So when absolute value is greater than 1, a x percentage change in price will lead to larger than x percentage change in quantity demanded.
<u>Note</u>: Whether the percentage change in quantity demanded will be just a little or very much larger than percentage change in price will depend on how much is larger than 1. But b is the still the best answer among the options.
Answer:
$165,670
Explanation:
Cost of goods sold = Sales revenue (1 - Gross profit)
= $669,900 × (1 - 0.30)
= $669,900 × 0.70
= $468,930
Estimated ending inventory destroyed in fire:
= Beginning inventory + Purchase - cost of goods sold
= $160,600 + $474,000 - $468,930
= $165,670
