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100

What type of demand do you have when the elasticity coefficient is exactly one?

Unit Elastic

100

What is the difference between nominal income and real income?

Real income is adjusted for the
effects of inflation

100

What are data in an index number series expressed relative to?

A base period

100

What is the term for someone who is able to benefit from a good or service without paying for it?

Free Rider

100

What do you call the properties and resources owned and controlled by a business?

Assets
100

What rental arrangement generally has the least risk to the landowner?

Cash Rent

100

What economic term is associated with the difference between the futures price and cash price of a commodity?

Basis

100

"Karma is the guy on the Chiefs" was a lyric in reference to this singers boyfriend

Taylor Swift

200

What is the additional output that results when one more unit of a variable input is used?

marginal physical product (MPP)

200

When inflation accelerates very rapidly, it is called:

Hyperinflation

200

What does the acronym ANOVA stand for?

analysis of variance

200

What type of resources are not exclusively controlled by a single agent and maybe managed collectively?

Common Property

200

What business activity involves the combining of two or more firms into one operating unit?

Merger

200

In what type of partnership can an individual invest without full liability?

Limited Partnership

200

In what type of economic system are most of society's resources are privately owned and managed?

Capitalism

200

This artist has a Christmas song that continues to top charts even decades after it was first released

Mariah Carey

300

If it pays to produce at all, production should always occur where Marginal _____ equals Marginal ____

Revenue, Cost

300

What US state is the leading producer of potatoes?

Idaho

300

The symmetrical curve associated with the normal distribution is commonly called:

A bell curve

300

The use of government spending and taxing for the specific purpose of stabilizing the economy.

Fiscal Policy

300

The value at which an asset is reported on a balance sheet is?

Book Value

300

What is estimated total costs of production for a given enterprise divided by the estimated yield?

Break-Even Price

300

What gives the holder the option to sell a futures contract at a specified price?

Put Option

300

This football player (QB)  played at Alabama and OU (ewww) before playing for the Philadelphia Eagles

Jalen Hurts

400

How are individual demand curves for a commodity used to derive the market demand curve?

They are summed horizontally

400

How many districts are included in the Federal Reserve System?

12

400

What is the probability of rolling two sixes (boxcars) with two six sided dice?

1/36 (or 2.78%)

400

What is the essence of a Pareto optimum?

a condition where it is impossible
to make anyone better off without
making someone else worse off

400

What is the name of the financial ratio that shows the adequacy of cash, accounts receivable, and marketable securities to cover current liabilities?

Current Ratio

400

What depreciation method uses a constant rate applied to the book value until the salvage value is reached, and then no further depreciation is taken?

Double-Declining Balance
Method

400

What do we call selling a specialized, modified product to a subset of the larger market?

Niche marketing

400

This performer played the superbowl halftime show in 2023

Rihanna

500

When average product is falling, marginal product is ____

Falling

500

A tight monetary policy in the US is most likely to ___ the international value of the dollar and ___ US net exports

Appreciate, Decrease

500

How is the median calculated if there are 10 observations for a variable?

Taking the average of the 5th
and 6th values when the
observations are in ascending or
descending order.

500

What U.S. law was meant to facilitate the distribution of American farm products in underdeveloped countries?

Public Law 480

500

On the balance sheet, how is debt payable within the next accounting period classified?

A current liability

500

If the cost of irrigation water increases, ceteris peribus, how would a profit-maximizing producer react?

Decrease water usage
500

An order to buy or sell a commodity futures position that becomes a market order if the specified price level is reached is called:

A market if touched order

500

This person, often referred to as "McDreamy", won Peoples Sexiest Man Alive this year (2023)

Patrick Dempsey