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Help Me Please : Dont Know anything about Economics. (Economics Class)?

• 1. The economic term for products that you can see and touch and use is a. Goods b. Resources c. Services d. None of the above 2. The basic kinds of resources include a. Natural resources, such as air, water, plants, animals, land, and raw materials b. People-made resources (capital resources, capital goods), such as tools c. Human resources, such as the work that people can do d. All of the above 3. Which of the following statements about scarcity is false? a. In order for something to be scarce, people must want it. b. In order for something to be scarce, some people who want it must be unable to buy it. c. What is scarce is different at different times and in different places. d. Scarcity never involves choosing among a variety of uses for a particular resource 4. The belief that central planning is needed to protect the interest of all the people is called a. Capitalism b. Communism c. Socialism d. None of the above 5. In a market economy, the profit motive means that a. Producers are free to sell products and services at the highest price they can get. b. Consumers are free to shop for the lowest prices. c. Workers are free to bargain for higher wages and better working conditions. d. All of the above 6. The federal government’s role in the U. S. economy includes a. Protecting of free competition b. Providing public goods and services. c. Helping deal with economic problems by regulating the money supply d. All of the above 7. Factors that can influence the level of supply include a. Production cost b. New producers in the market c. Changes in technology d. All of the above 8. The market is in equilibrium when a. Supply and demand are balanced b. There is too little of a product or service to meet the demand. c. There is too much of a product than is demanded. d. When a small price change makes a big difference in the supply of a product. 9. Which of the following factors does NOT influence wages? a. Competition among employers b. Employers’ profits and prices for finished products c. The face value of the money used to pay them d. Workers’ education and training 10. Which of the following statements about business entities in the United States is false? a. Less than $6 of every $100 in sales is made by corporations. b. Only about one in ten of all businesses in the U.S. are partnerships. c. Seven of every ten businesses in the U.S. are sole proprietorships. d. The biggest businesses in the U.S. are corporations. 11. A corporation can a. Own property b. Make contracts c. Sue and be sued in a court of law d. All of the above 12. Part of a corporation’s profits are paid to stockholders in the form of a. Bonds b. Capital gains c. Dividends d. Speculation 13. Most industries in the U.S. fall into two major categories: a. Monopolistic competition and absolute advantage b. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly c. Oligopoly and absolute advantage d. Oligopoly and comparative advantage 14. Balance of trade is a. How nations depend on each other through international trade for many of the products they need and want. b. The difference between the value of what a country imports and what it exports. c. When a producer concentrates on producing one kind of goods rather than a variety. d. When a product has a lower alternative cost compared with another product. 15. Rank the following U.S. job categories in order of earnings from highest to lowest a. Executives and managers, professionals, skilled blue-collar workers, service workers b. Professionals, executives and managers, skilled blue-collar workers, white-collar workers c. Professionals, white-collar workers, semi-skilled blue collar workers, agricultural workers d. Service workers, skilled blue-collar workers, semi-skilled blue collar workers, agricultural workers

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  1. The economic term for products that you can see and touch and use is a. Goods 2. The basic kinds of resources include d. All of the above 3. Which of the following statements about scarcity is false? a. In order for something to be scarce, people must want it. b. In order for something to be scarce, some people who want it must be unable to buy it. c. What is scarce is different at different times and in different places. d. Scarcity never involves choosing among a variety of uses for a particular resource 4. The belief that central planning is needed to protect the interest of all the people is called b. Communism 5. In a market economy, the profit motive means that a. Producers are free to sell products and services at the highest price they can get. 6. The federal government’s role in the U. S. economy includes d. All of the above 7. Factors that can influence the level of supply include a. Production cost 8. The market is in equilibrium when a. Supply and demand are balanced 9. Which of the following factors does NOT influence wages? c. The face value of the money used to pay them 10. Which of the following statements about business entities in the United States is false? a. Less than $6 of every $100 in sales is made by corporations. 11. A corporation can d. All of the above 12. Part of a corporation’s profits are paid to stockholders in the form of c. Dividends 13. Most industries in the U.S. fall into two major categories: d. Oligopoly and comparative advantage 14. Balance of trade is b. The difference between the value of what a country imports and what it exports. 15. Rank the following U.S. job categories in order of earnings from highest to lowest c. Professionals, white-collar workers, semi-skilled blue collar workers, agricultural workers