Microeconomics: Solved Assignments

This document contains the answers to 60 microeconomics assignment questions covering various topics including elasticity, consumer behavior, market structures, and government intervention. The questions are accompanied by detailed explanations, making it a valuable resource for students studying microeconomics.

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Microeconomics
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Answer1. (a) Clothing
Answer2. (b) Because there are many close substitutes for Werther’s
Answer3. (a) Total revenue would increase by $1200 and demand would be elastic.
Answer4: (c) It gets flatter and the price elasticity of demand will eventually be greater than 1.
Answer5: (c) It first increases then decreases.
Answer6: (c) Elastic
Answer7: (b) Diamonds
Answer8: (a) Negative, and therefore the good is an inferior good
Answer9: (b) -2.33
Answer10: (b) Not very responsive
Answer11: (b) It is 1.74 and supply is elastic
Answer12: (d) 1.63

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Answer13: (b) There was a reduction in the amount of oil supplied and a world-wide oil
embargo.
Answer14: (a) An equitable outcome
Answer15: (b) A price ceiling
Answer16: (c) A surplus of 40 units
Answer17: (b) A shortage of computers
Answer18: (a) $5.00
Answer19: (a) Free gasoline given to people as an incentive to rent a car
Answer20: (b) Quantity supplied to fall and quantity demanded to rise

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Answer21: (a) Bringing the total price of an apartment (including the bribe) closer to the
equilibrium price
Answer22: (d) Government can sometimes improve on market outcomes.
Answer23: (c) The lowest price employers may pay for labour
Answer24: (c) The quantity demanded of labour will be less than the quantity supplied.
Answer25: (b) The supply curve of Snickers will shift up by $0.10.
Answer26: (c) It depends on the forces of supply and demand.
Answer27: (c) Market (c)
Answer28: (b) $10
Answer29: (b) The burden of the tax fell more on the middle class than on the rich

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Answer30: (d) It is impossible to say without more information.
Answer31: (a) The willingness to pay of all buyers in the market (It shows the willingness to pay
of the marginal buyers)
Answer32: (c) A + B + C
Answer33: The total value of what is purchased remains unchanged.
Answer34: (d) $10 each
Answer35: (b) The total value to buyers of the goods less the total costs to sellers of providing
those goods
Answer36: (b) A + B + C
Answer37: (c) D + E + F

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Answer38: (c) It might increase or decrease (Depends on the elasticity of demand)
Answer39: (d) The value of radios to consumers has increased and the cost of producing radios
has decreased.
Answer40: (c) To decrease consumer surplus in the market for orange juice but increase
producer surplus in the market for apple juice
Answer41: (a) When total surplus is maximized
Answer42: (a) The marketplace guiding the self-interests of market participants into promoting
general economic well-being
Answer43: (c) As a way of increasing the efficiency of ticket distribution
Answer44: (c) It shifts the demand curve downward (or to the left).
Answer45: (c) C

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Answer46: (b) By tax revenue
Answer47: (a) P1
Answer48: (a) P3ACP1
Answer49: (b) ABC
Answer50: (a) The reduction in total surplus that results from a tax
Answer51: (c) $14
Answer52: (c) P3
Answer53: (d) $16
Answer54: (b) It would fall by $1800

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Answer55: (a) $20
Answer56: (a) $10
Answer57: (c) A relatively large change in the amounts sellers are willing to sell
Answer58: (d) Either small or large, depending on the elasticity of supply
Answer59: (b) Productive land
Answer60: (d) It will increase, then decrease.

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