TEST BANK Foundations of Business by William M. Pride 7th Edition

TEST BANK
Foundations of Business by William M. Pride

7th Edition




TEST BANK

,Foundations of Business 7e William M. Pride;

Chapter 1
End of Chapter Questions
Quiz Yourself

1. Scarcity implies that the allocation decision chosen by society can
a) not make more of any one good.
b) Always make more of any good.
c) Typically make more of one good but at the expense of making less
ofanother.
d) Always make more of all goods simultaneously.
Explanation: Scarcity implies that choices involve trade-offs.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 02 Medium
Gradeable: automatic
Learning Objective: 01-01
Topic: Economics and Opportunity Cost

2. A production possibilities frontier is a simple model of
a) Allocating scarce inputs to the production of alternative outputs.
a) Price and production/consumption in a market.
b) The cost of producing goods.
c) The number of inputs required to produce varying levels of output.
Explanation: The production possibilities frontier shows the quantity of two goods that
can be produced. It implies that scarcity requires that choices be made as to how to use
resources.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 02 Medium
Gradeable: automatic
Learning Objective: 01-01
Topic: Modeling Opportunity Cost Using the Production Possibilities Frontier

,3. The underlying reason that there are unattainable points on a production possibilities
frontier is that there
a. Is government.
b. Are always choices that must be made.
c. Are scarce resources within a fixed level of technology.
d. Is unemployment of resources.
Explanation: The points outside the production possibilities frontier are unattainable. This
means that currently available resources and technology are insufficient to produce
amounts greater than those illustrated on the frontier. On a graph, everything beyond the
frontier is unattainable.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 01 Easy
Gradeable: automatic
Learning Objective: 01-01
Topic: Modeling Opportunity Cost Using the Production Possibilities Frontier

4. The underlying reason production possibilities frontiers are likely to be bowed out
(rather than linear) is because
a. Choices have consequences.
b. There are always opportunity costs.
c. Some resources and people can be better used producing one good
ratherthan another.
d. There is always some level of unemployment.
Explanation: If the production possibilities frontier is not a line but is bowed out away
from the origin, then opportunity cost is increasing. The reason for this is that as we add
more resources to the production of, for example, pizza, we are using fewer resources to
produce soda. Compounding that problem, at each stage as we take the resources away
from soda and put them into pizza, we are moving workers who are worse at pizza
production and better at soda production than those moved in the previous stage. This
means that the increase in pizza production is diminishing and the loss in soda production
is increasing. An economist would call this an example of increasing opportunity cost. If
the production possibilities frontier is a straight line that is not bowed out away from the
origin, then opportunity cost is constant.

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gvObjective:v01-02
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hevPPFvbothvupvandvtovthevright.

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nvBlooms:vRemember
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gvObjective:v01-
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a. Irrationalvdecisions.
b. Unpredictablevdecisions.
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d. Decisionsvwithoutvthinkingvveryvhard.
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maximizevtheirvhappinessvsubjectvtovavscarcevamountvofvmoney.

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gvObjective:v01-01
Topic:vThinkingvEconomically