Answer:
d. backward sloping.
Step-by-step explanation:
The roommate receives a pay raise at her part-time job from $9 to $11 per hour and now decides to work 20 hours per week instead to 25 hours per week.
We can see that her rate is decreasing, so her labor supply curve is backward sloping or also called backward bending.
It is mostly found that worker's labor supply curve, slopes upward when they get lower wages and the curve bends backward when they get higher wages because a worker tends to work less when his wage rate rises.
Answer:
21. y = 75000·0.935^t
22. after 74.6 days
23. y = 27.8112·1.18832^t
24. 18.8% per month
25. 1748
Step-by-step explanation:
22. It is convenient to use the graphing calculator to solve this problem. The number of days is where the exponential curve has the value 500. It is about 74.55 days. (see the first attachment)
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23. y = 27.8112·1.18832^t (see the second attachment)
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24. The rate of change is the difference between the base of the exponential and 1, often expressed as a percentage. The time period is the units of t.
(1.18832 -1) × 100% ≈ 18.8% . . . . per month
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25. Evaluating the function for t=24 gives y ≈ 1748.30425259 ≈ 1748.
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<em>Comment on graphing calculator</em>
A graphing calculator can make very short work of problems like these. It is worthwhile to get to know how to use one well.
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