超星 - 新建作业6

单选题

[单选]Which of the following is correct?

A. Rent control and the minimum wage are both examples of price ceilings.
B. Rent control is an example of a price ceiling, and the minimum wage is an example of a price floor.
C. Rent control is an example of a price floor, and the minimum wage is an example of a price ceiling.
D. Rent control and the minimum wage are both examples of price floors.

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[单选]The burden of a luxury tax falls

A. more on the rich than on the middle class.
B. more on the poor than on the rich.
C. more on the middle class than on the rich.
D. equally on the rich, the middle class, and the poor.

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[单选]Which of the following statements is true?

A tax levied on buyers will never be partially paid by sellers.
B. Who actually pays a tax depends on the price elasticities of supply and demand.
C. Government can decide who actually pays a tax.
D. A tax levied on sellers always will be passed on completely to buyers.

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[单选]The quantity sold in a market will decrease if the government

A. decreases a binding price floor in that market.
B. increases a binding price ceiling in that market.
C. increases a tax on the good sold in that market.
D. More than one of the above is correct.

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[单选]Suppose that a tax is placed on books. If the sellers pay the majority of the tax, then we know that the

A. demand is more inelastic than the supply.
B. supply is more inelastic than the demand.
C. government has required that buyers remit the tax payments.
D. government has required that sellers remit the tax payments.

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[单选]在图形中,消费者剩余用( )面积表示

A. 在需求曲线和供给曲线之间。
B. 低于需求曲线而高于价格。
C. 低于价格,高于供给曲线。
D. 在需求曲线下方,均衡价格右侧。

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[单选]If Gina sells a shirt for $40, and her producer surplus from the sale is $32, her cost must have been

A. $72.
B. $32.
C. $8.
D. We would have to know the consumer surplus in order to make this determination.

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[单选] If the supply curve is S, the demand curve is D, and the equilibrium price is $100, what is the producer surplus?BIAOGE

A. $625
B. $1,250
C. $2,500
D. $5,000

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[单选] If the demand curve is D and the supply curve shifts from S’ to S, what is the change in producer surplus?BIAOGE

A. Producer surplus increases by $625.
B. Producer surplus increases by $1,875.
C. Producer surplus decreases by $625.
D. Producer surplus decreases by $1,875.

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[单选]Producer surplus directly measures

A. the well-being of society as a whole.
B. the well-being of buyers and sellers.
C. the well-being of sellers.
D. sellers’ willingness to sell.

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