Answer:
1. Trade off
2. Opportunity cost
3. Cost-benefit analysis
4. Diminishing marginal utility
Explanation:
1. Giving up one benefit or advantage to gain another regarded as more favorable is called trade-off. Every economic decision involves some trade-off.
2. Opportunity cost is the second-best alternative or value of the alternative, that must be given up when making a choice. Because of scarce resources with alternative uses allocation of resources involves some opportunity cost.
3. Cost-benefit analysis can be defined as the process of examining the benefits and costs of each available alternative in arriving at a decision. Resources are allocated efficiently if the cost incurred and benefit earned is equal.
4. As we go on increasing the quantity consumed of a product, the marginal utility or satisfaction earned from its consumption goes on decreasing. This is called diminishing marginal utility.
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The following are the correct and incorrect options
<u>Correct option</u>: Households used to save and those savings are utilized for investment through the intermediaries like bank. Firms and governments take those funds for their investment acts.
<u>Correct option</u>: Foreigner can invest in the US (suppose foreign direct investment) but can’t save here, since there is difference in currency (suppose a foreigner earns in pond can’t save in US dollar).
<u>Other options are not correct:
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<u>Incorrect option</u>: Savings means personal savings, which are not yet kept into a bank.
<u>Incorrect option</u>: such purchases are investments but not savings.
Answer:
Contracts required in writing
Explanation:
Contracts that required to be in writing to be enforceable. These contracts are never orally agreed and there is no value of such oral contracts. The contact and promise made by executor to pay debt, promises in consideration of marriage, Sale of goods priced $500 or more should be in writing.
Answer:
Variable overhead cost variance = $2,949.80
Explanation:
As per the data given in the question,
Actual overhead cost = $15,000
Actual hours = 490
Actual cost = $30.61 per hour
Standard overhead cost = $15,000
Standard hours = 610
Budgeted cost = $24.59 per hour
Variable overhead cost variance = Actual hours × (Actual cost per hour - Standard cost per hour)
= 490 × ( $30.61 - $24.59 )
= $2,949.80
