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Suppose that a change in the price of bread from R10 to R12.50 leads to a change in the quantity demanded of bread from 65 units to 90 units. Use the arc elasticity method to calculate and interpret the price elasticity of demand for bread
Explain the point of Descartes’s meditator’s argument from the proposition “I am, I exist” (or, the cogito) and the criterion for (perfect) knowledge put forward in this argument.
Price per barrel = $18
World demand and supply = 23 billion barrels per year

Calculate the slope, intercept and equation for the demand and supply curves in the short run and long run
Ed in the short run = -0.05 long-run = -0.04
Es in the short-run = 0.10 long-run = 0.40
. Retail price of fuel in Fiji is uniformly distributed between $2.00 and $3.50 per litre.
a. Calculate the retail average price of fuel in Fiji. (1 mark)
b. What is the probability that the price of fuel will be less than $3. Show working. (2 marks)
c. What is the probability that the price of fuel will less than $2. Show working. (2 marks)

Suppose that a change in the price of bread from R10 to R12.50 leads to a change in the quantity demanded of bread from 65 units to 90 .use the arc elasticity method to calculate and interpret the cross price elasticity of demand for the bread


QUESTION 1


Is the problem of coordination common to all economies? Explain how the problem is met in a market economy and how coordination was dealt with in a command economy.

 

QUESTION 2


With using circular flow model briefly explain the movement of factor of production and good and service in a market. 


QUESTION 3


Imagine a society that produces military goods and consumer goods, which we’ll call “guns” and “butter”. Draw a production possibilities frontier for guns and butter. Explain the concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost.


When buying an item at the store, you receive $9.25 back in change from the $30 you gave the cashier. If the tax rate t is 5.5%, what is the pre-tax price p? Round off to the nearest cent.
Hawkes Bay on the daily wages of grape pickers in the Hawkes Bay. Assume that grape buyers don't care whether their grapes come from Hawkes Bay or Marlborough. A plentiful crop in Hawkes Bay causes the ----------- grapes in New Zealand to ----------- , which is illustrated by a ----------------------- shift of the curve. The plentiful crop has caused the price of grapes in New Zealand to ------------- , while the quantity of grapes in the market has ------------------ . Now we will consider the effect of the change in grape price above on the labour market for grape pickers in the Hawkes Bay. The change in grape price causes the ----------- grape pickers in the Hawkes Bay to------------------ , which is illustrated by a -------------- shift of the curve. The change in grape price has caused the wage level for grape pickers in the Hawkes Bay to ---------------- , while the number of grape pickers employed in the labour market has

Melissa buys an iPhone for $240 and gets consumer surplus of $160.

a. What is her willingness to pay?

b. If she had bought the iPhone on sale for $180, what would her consumer surplus have been?

c. If the price of an iPhone were $500, what would her consumer surplus have been?


If the price of processor chips used in manufacturing personal computers decreases, how will the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of personal computers change?
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