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ECON 100 Quiz Questions with Correct Answers | Verified and Updated The overriding reason why households and societies face many decisions is that: (a) resources are scarce (b) goods and services are not scarce (c) incomes fluctuate with business cycles (d) people, by nature, tend to disagree...

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ECON 100 Quiz Questions with Correct
Answers | Verified and Updated
The overriding reason why households and societies face many decisions is that:




(a) resources are scarce

(b) goods and services are not scarce

(c) incomes fluctuate with business cycles

(d) people, by nature, tend to disagree - Answer✔️✔️-( a) resources are scarce
Which of the following is a decision that economists study?



(a) how much people work

(b) what people buy

(c) how much money people save

(d) All of the above are correct - Answer✔️✔️-(d) All of the above are correct

The adage, "There is no such thing as a free lunch," means:



(a) even people on welfare have to pay for food

(b) the cost of living is always increasing

(c) people face tradeoffs

(d) all costs are included in the price of a product - Answer✔️✔️-(c) people face tradeoffs

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Sophia is planning her activities for a hot summer day. She would like to go to the local

swimming pool and see the latest blockbuster movie, but because she can only get

tickets to the movie for the same time that the pool is open, she can only choose one

activity. This illustrates the basic principle that:



(a) people response to incentives

(b) rational people think at the margin

(c) people face tradeoffs

(d) improvements in efficiency sometimes come at the expense of equality - Answer✔️✔️-

(c) people face tradeoffs

A tradeoff exists between a clean environment and a higher level of income in that:



(a) studies show that individuals with higher levels of income pollute less than low-

income individuals

(b) efforts to reduce pollution typically are not completely successful

(c) laws that reduce pollution raise costs of production and reduce incomes

(d) employing individuals to clean up pollution causes increases in employment and

income - Answer✔️✔️-(c) laws that reduce pollution raise costs of production and reduce

incomes

Efficiency:




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(a) and equality both refer to how much a society can produce with its resources

(b) and equality both refer to how fairly the benefits from using resources are distributed

between members of a society

(c) refers to how much a society can produce with its resources. Equality refers to how

evenly the benefits from using resources are distributed among members of society

(d) refers to how evenly the benefits from using resources are distributed between

members of society. Equality refers to how much a society can produce with its

resources - Answer✔️✔️-(c) refers to how much a society can produce with its resources.

Equality refers to how evenly the benefits from using resources are distributed among

members of society

The opportunity cost of an item is:



(a) the number of hours needed to earn the money to buy an item

(b) what you give up to get that item

(c) usually less than the dollar value of an item

(d) the dollar value of an item - Answer✔️✔️-(b) what you give up to get that item

The opportunity cost of going to college is:



(a) the total spent on food, clothing, books, transportation, tuition, lodging, and other

expenses

(b) the value of the best opportunity a student gives up to attend college


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(c) zero for students who are fortunate enough to have all of their college expenses paid

by someone else

(d) zero, since a college education will allow a student to earn a larger income after

graduation - Answer✔️✔️-(b) the value of the best opportunity a student gives up to

attend college

Rational people make decisions at the margin by:



(a) following marginal traditions

(b) behaving in a random fashion

(c) thinking in black-and-white terms

(d) comparing marginal costs and marginal benefits - Answer✔️✔️-(d) comparing

marginal costs and marginal benefits

A rational decision maker takes an action if and only if:



(a) the marginal benefit of the action exceed the marginal cost of the action

(b) the marginal cost of the action exceeds the marginal benefit of the action

(c) the marginal cost of the actions zero

(d) the opportunity cost of the action is zero - Answer✔️✔️-(a) the marginal benefit of the

action exceed the marginal cost of the action

In a market economy, supply and demand are important because they:




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