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What is scarcity? : Not having enough resources . What is opportunity cost: The last you would give up to make a choice. A popular bakery has only a few ingredients left to make their products.  They could bake muffins or cookies, but they can’t make both.  The bakers decide to make cookies for their customers.  What is the opportunity cost of their decision: muffins . The Welch family has saved some money. They can spend it on a vacation to the Grand Canyon or build a swimming pool in their backyard. They decide to spend the money on a swimming pool. What is the opportunity cost of their decision: vacation . Emelia has been invited to a sleepover at Chloe’s house for this Saturday. Emelia has tickets to see her favorite band in concert that same night. She decides to give the tickets to her sister and go to Chloe’s house. What is the opportunity cost of her decision: seeing her favorite band . Max is studying for his spelling test. Unfortunately, his favorite TV program is on right now. If he studies for the test, he will miss watching the show. Max decides to study for his test instead of watching TV. What is the opportunity cost of his decision: watching TV show. The local government for a community must decide what to do with the sales tax collected. They could build a new skate park or they could buy more computers for the public library. The officials decide to build a skate park. What is the opportunity cost of their decision: more computers . The economic problem is that: resources are limited and wants are unlimited.. The opportunity cost of a good is: the alternative goods forgone.. A firm operating at 'X' produces 70 whips and 60 saddles. It changes production to 'Y' producing 20 whips and 90 saddles. The opportunity cost of this production change is : 50 whips. Because of scarcity, people are forced to make _________ about how to use resources: choices. What name is given to the value of the next best alternative that you give up when you make a decision: opportunity cost. You win a football match ticket that worth $100, but need to pay 25% tax. What is the opportunity cost if you choose to stay home and watching a TV show that you need to pay $20 rather than going to the football match: $95

Which economic indicator is best described as Gross National Product minus inflation and depreciation: Net National Product. Gross domestic product is equal to the market value of all final goods and services:: produced domestically during a period.. Which of the following expenditures would not be included in GDP: Purchase of a silver cup previously sold new in 1950.. Personal consumption expenditures include:: all goods and services bought by households.. In the circular flow model,: money flows from the households to the firms through the product market.. All final goods and services that make up GDP can be expressed in the form:: . Personal income minus personal taxes is:: disposable personal income.. The period between the peak and the trough is the _____; the period between the trough and the peak is the _____: recession; expansion. The unemployment rate equals the number of persons:: unemployed divided by the number in the labor force.. Inflation is defined as an increase in:: the average price level.. What usually happens to inflation during a recession: it decreases. Which of the following is not a component of the business cycle: decline. A worker who was laid off due to a downturn in the business cycle would be considered: cyclically unemployed.. Logan loses his job cooking pizza when a robot can do it faster and at a lower expense.  Which type of unemployment is he experiencing: Structural. A good way to measure standard of living is by calculating: per capita GDP