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4) A firm's cost of production is determined by all of the following except
A) the technology used to produce its output.
B) the productivity of its workers.
C) the cost of raw material used in production.
D) the amount of corporate taxes it must pay on its profit.
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
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Topic: Technology
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
5) A firm increased its production and sales because the firm's manager rearranged the layout of
his factory floor. This is an example of
A) investment in human capital.
B) economies of scale.
C) positive technological change.
D) inspired management.
Answer: C
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 326/326
Topic: Technological Change
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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7) Which of the following is an example of positive technological change?
A) A firm offers workers a higher wage to work on weekends and at night. As a result, the firm
is able to increase its weekly production of surf boards.
B) A firm buys an additional machine that it uses to make surf boards. As a result, the firm is
able to increase its weekly production of surf boards.
C) A firm conducts a new advertising campaign. As a result, the demand for the firm's surf
boards increases.
D) A firm's workers participate in a training program designed to increase the number of surf
boards they can produce per day.
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 326/326
Topic: Technological Change
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
8) Suppose a chain of convenience stores reorganized its system of supplying its stores with
food. This led to a sharp reduction in the number of trucks that the company had to use and
increased the amount of fresh food on store shelves. Which of the following statements best
describes the chain stores' actions?
A) The change implemented is not an example of technological change because it did not require
the use of new machinery of equipment.
B) Technological change refers only to the introduction of new products or improvements to
existing product. As such, the scenario described in the question is not technological change.
C) The firm is able to produce more output (increase its sales) using fewer inputs (less trucks).
Therefore, the chain of convenience stores has implemented a positive technological change.
D) The scenario described is an example of management efficiency and not technological
change. Essentially, the chain changes its way of operating its business.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 326-327/326-327
Topic: Technological Change
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: Making the Connection: Improving Inventory Control at Wal-Mart
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9) Improvements in inventory control represent a positive technological change because they
allow firms to produce the same output with fewer inputs. In recent years, many firms have
adopted an inventory system in which firms accept shipments from suppliers as close as possible
to the time they will be needed. Wal-Mart has been a pioneer in using inventory control systems
to this in its stores. This type of inventory system is called a ________ inventory system.
A) first-in-first-out
B) cash-and-carry
C) just-in-time
D) buy-now-pay-later
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 326-327/326-327
Topic: Technological Change
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: Making the Connection: Improving Inventory Control at Wal-Mart
10) The process a firm uses to turn inputs into outputs of goods and services is called technology.
Answer: TRUE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 326/326
Topic: Technology
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
11) If a firm experiences positive technological change, it is able to produce more output using
the same inputs.
Answer: TRUE
Comment: Recurring
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Topic: Technological Change
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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13) Describe how Wal-Mart has used positive technological change to manage its inventory.
Answer: Wal-Mart uses a "just-in-time" inventory system to manage its inventory. Company
founder Sam Walton built a series of distribution centers across the country to supply goods to
the retail stores. As goods are sold in stores, sales information is sent electronically to the
distribution centers to help managers determine what merchandise to ship to each store, with the
shipments often being received overnight. This allows Wal-Mart to minimize its inventory
holdings without running the risk of many stockouts occurring. Wal-Mart has involved many of
its suppliers in this process, which allows these manufacturers to more efficiently determine
production schedules and the quantities to be shipped to Wal-Mart.
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 326-327/326-327
Topic: Technology
Objective: LO1: Define technology and give examples of technological change.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: Making the Connection: Improving Inventory Control at Wal-Mart
2) Which of the following is a factor of production that generally is fixed in the short run?
A) raw materials
B) labor
C) a factory building
D) water
Answer: C
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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3) Which of the following is an example of a long run adjustment?
A) Your university offers Saturday morning classes next fall.
B) Ford Motor Company lays off 2,000 assembly line workers.
C) A soybean farmer turns on the irrigation system after a month long dry spell.
D) Wal-Mart builds another Supercenter.
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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6) Which of the following is a fixed cost?
A) payment to hire a security worker to guard the gate to the factory around the clock
B) wages to hire assembly line workers
C) payments to an electric utility
D) costs of raw materials
Answer: A
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Fixed Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
7) Academic book publishers hire editors, designers, and production and marketing managers
who help prepare books for publication. Because these employees work on several books
simultaneously, the number of people the company hires will not go up and down with the
quantity of books the company publishes during any particular year. The salaries and benefits of
people in these job categories will be included in
A) fixed cost and marginal cost but not variable cost.
B) fixed cost but not variable cost and total cost.
C) marginal cost and total cost but not fixed cost.
D) fixed cost and total cost but not variable cost.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 328/328
Topic: Fixed Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: Making the Connection: Fixed Costs in the Publishing Industry
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9) Implicit costs can be defined as
A) accounting profit minus explicit cost.
B) the non-monetary opportunity cost of using the firm's own resources.
C) the deferred cost of production.
D) total cost minus fixed costs.
Answer: B
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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12) The explicit cost of production is also called
A) variable cost.
B) accounting cost.
C) direct cost.
D) overhead cost.
Answer: B
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
13) Which of the following are implicit costs for a typical firm?
A) opportunity costs of capital owned and used by the firm
B) the cost of labor hired by the firm
C) utilities cost
D) a business licensing fee
Answer: A
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
14) Jayanthi moves her yoga studio from her home to a space she rents in Oakland, California.
Holding everything else constant, as a result of this move,
A) her explicit cost falls and her implicit cost rises.
B) her implicit cost falls and her explicit cost rises.
C) her economic cost rises.
D) her opportunity cost rises.
Answer: B
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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15) Which of the following would be categorized as an opportunity cost?
a. not being able to spend your $10,000 savings if you sink the money in your business
b. the cost of purchasing supplies for your house-cleaning business
c. the cost of purchasing auto insurance for your dry-cleaning delivery business
A) a only
B) a and c only
C) b and c only
D) all of the above
Answer: A
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
16) Golda Rush quit her job as a manager for Home Depot to start her own hair dressing salon,
Goldilocks. She gave up a salary of $40,000 per year, invested her savings of $30,000 (which
was earning 5 percent interest) and borrowed $10,000 from a close friend, agreeing to pay 5
percent interest per year. In her first year, Golda spent $18,000 to rent a salon, hired a part-time
assistant for $12,000 and incurred another $15,000 on equipment and hairdressing material.
Based on this information, what is the amount of her explicit costs?
A) $45,000
B) $45,500
C) $47,000
D) $87,000
Answer: B
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
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17) Golda Rush quit her job as a manager for Home Depot to start her own hair dressing salon,
Goldilocks. She gave up a salary of $40,000 per year, invested her savings of $30,000 (which
was earning 5 percent interest) and borrowed $10,000 from a close friend, agreeing to pay 5
percent interest per year. In her first year, Golda spent $18,000 to rent a salon, hired a part-time
assistant for $12,000 and incurred another $15,000 on equipment and hairdressing material.
Based on this information, what is the amount of her implicit costs?
A) $80,000
B) $70,000
C) $42,000
D) $41,500
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
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20) Vipsana's Gyros House sells gyros. The cost of ingredients (pita, meat, spices, etc.) to make a
gyro is $2.00. Vipsana pays her employees $60 per day. She also incurs a fixed cost of $120 per
day. Calculate Vipsana's variable cost per day when she produces 50 gyros using two workers?
A) $100
B) $124.40
C) $220
D) $240
Answer: C
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Variable Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
21) Vipsana's Gyros House sells gyros. The cost of ingredients (pita, meat, spices, etc.) to make a
gyro is $2.00. Vipsana pays her employees $60 per day. She also incurs a fixed cost of $120 per
day. Calculate Vipsana's total cost per day when she produces 50 gyros using two workers?
A) $100
B) $124.40
C) $220
D) $340
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Total Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
22) Vipsana's Gyros House sells gyros. The cost of ingredients (pita, meat, spices, etc.) to make a
gyro is $2.00. Vipsana pays her employees $60 per day. She also incurs a fixed cost of $120 per
day. Calculate Vipsana's average fixed cost per day when she produces 50 gyros using two
workers?
A) $2.00
B) $2.40
C) $4.40
D) $6.80
Answer: B
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Fixed Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
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23) Vipsana's Gyros House sells gyros. The cost of ingredients (pita, meat, spices, etc.) to make a
gyro is $2.00. Vipsana pays her employees $60 per day. She also incurs a fixed cost of $120 per
day. What is Vipsana's total cost per day when she does not produce any gyros and does not hire
any workers?
A) $0
B) $2
C) $60
D) $120
Answer: D
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Total Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Special Feature: None
24) The short run is the time period during which a firm has at least one input constraint.
Answer: TRUE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
25) A characteristic of the long run that is not available in the short run is that a firm is free to
vary its output.
Answer: FALSE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
26) Consider a manufacturing operation that uses specialized machinery and labor to produce its
output. In this case, the input that is not fixed in the short run is labor.
Answer: TRUE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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27) Accounting costs exclude implicit costs.
Answer: TRUE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 328-329/328-329
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
28) If the firm is producing no output in the short run, then its total costs are zero.
Answer: FALSE
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: Total Cost
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
29) In economics, what is the difference between the short run and the long run?
Answer: In economics, the short run refers to the period of time during which at least one of a
firm's inputs is fixed. The long run refers to the period of time in which a firm can vary all its
inputs, adopt new technology, and increase or decrease the size of its physical plant.
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 327/327
Topic: The Short Run and the Long Run
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
30) What is the difference between explicit costs and implicit costs? List three examples each of
explicit costs and implicit costs that may be experienced by a small business.
Answer: Explicit costs are costs that involve spending money. Implicit costs are nonmonetary
opportunity costs. Explicit costs experienced by a small business may include wages, utility
costs, and rent. Implicit costs experienced by a small business may include foregone salary,
foregone interest, and economic depreciation.
Comment: Recurring
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 328/328
Topic: Explicit and Implicit Costs
Objective: LO2: Distinguish between the economic short run and the economic long run.
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Special Feature: None
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heads might glory in,—but it is an Honour also, which it is hoped, in
the case of a native, Pennsylvania would not yield to the greatest
prince or people on earth!
Mr. Rittenhouse was among those, who early yielded to the call of
their fellow-citizens to serve them in a civil capacity. Dr. Franklin and
Major (afterwards General) Mifflin had been respectively appointed
by the continental congress, in the year 1775, to be post-master
general of “the United Colonies of North-America,” and
quartermaster-general of the American army: and, in consequence
of these appointments, both these gentlemen resigned, in the early
part of the ensuing year, the seats they had occupied in the general
assembly of Pennsylvania, as burgesses for the city of Philadelphia.
To supply this vacancy in the representation of that city, Colonel
(afterwards General) Joseph Reed and David Rittenhouse, Esq.
were elected, in March 1776. Mr. Rittenhouse took his seat on the
5th day of the same month, and continued an useful member of that
body until the termination of its legislative functions. But, although he
was a valuable and highly respectable member of that house, he did
not possess that species of talent which often enables a man of even
moderate abilities, to make a prominent figure in popular assemblies:
his perception was extremely quick; in deliberative powers he
excelled; and all his reasoning faculties were most accurate: yet, an
insuperable native diffidence—pursuits which precluded
opportunities of public speaking—and, perhaps, a peculiar structure
of his mind—all forbad his being an orator.
The person first appointed to that high trust, under the republican
government of Pennsylvania, was David Rittenhouse: a man whose
stern integrity, numerous public services, and uniform adherence to
those principles which gave rise to the American revolution, were
well calculated to inspire a general confidence in his character; more
especially, in times when virtue and talents were considered as
meritorious qualities in public men, by those who elevated them to
office. The first legislative body of the State, after the declaration of
independence, assembled at Philadelphia in October, 1776; and, on
the 14th day of January, in the following year, they chose Mr.
Rittenhouse to be the state-treasurer, without a dissenting voice. In
like manner, he was unanimously continued in that station, during
twelve succeeding years; in the last of which, he sent to the
legislature his resignation of that office: this event shall be more
particularly noticed in its proper place in the order of time.
But, in order that the reader may be enabled to form his own
judgment, on Mr. Jefferson’s estimate of genius, and concerning the
rank and privileges to which the distinguished writer conceives men
of great philosophical talents are entitled, the letter, just referred to,
is now presented to him: it is as follows.
Th. Jefferson.
But this agreement, thus solemnly concluded, did not quiet the
pre-existing disputes. Divers persons, deriving authority, or
pretending so to do, under the government of Virginia, proceeded to
Fort Byrd in the county of Westmoreland, thirty miles at least within
the line agreed on by the commissioners,—and upon lands originally
settled under Pennsylvania, and long held as being within its
unquestionable jurisdiction; and these intruders there exercised a
summary and arbitrary authority, tending to the dispossession of the
grantees under Pennsylvania; vexing and disturbing them, greatly, in
the peaceable possession of lands which they had honestly
purchased, and cultivated for a long course of years. Such injustice
and outrages, on she part of the Virginia intruders, induced congress
to interpose the little authority they possessed, for the purpose of
tranquillizing the contending parties, at a period when the harmony
of the citizens of the several states was highly important to the safety
of the whole confederacy. Accordingly, in December, 1779, and
nearly four months after the adjustment of the before disputed
boundary by the persons duly empowered to settle the same,
congress passed a resolution, attested by their secretary, in these
words:
It is evident from the face of this resolution, that congress were not
disposed to notice this controversy, otherwise, than with extreme
delicacy: and so cautious were they, under all existing
circumstances, of interfering with the merits of this dispute between
two great and powerful states, that they speak of the controversy as
one then actually in existence, between those states; although, in
regard to their respective governments, it had been settled long
before. However, the day after the date of the resolution of
Congress, the president and the supreme executive council of
Pennsylvania issued a proclamation, requiring all officers, civil and
military, and others, subjects of the state, to pay due obedience and
respect to that resolution; and also encouraging the several grantees
claiming under Pennsylvania to continue in the cultivation and
improvement of their several estates and possessions, as well as in
their allegiance and fidelity to the state,—notwithstanding any claims
or pretences set up by the state of Virginia, or any other foreign
jurisdiction; and assuring them of the protection and support of their
own state, while so continuing in duty and obedience to its laws and
government.
The death of the Rev. Mr. Barton, which occurred in the spring of
1780,[200] put a period to the sincere and intimate friendship between
that gentleman and Mr. Rittenhouse, which had subsisted almost
thirty years. This friendship, which may be said to have commenced
almost in the youth of both parties, continued without interruption
until the year 1776; when the declaration of American independence
produced, unhappily, some abatement of it on each side; at least, so
far as related to that great political measure, respecting which they
entertained different opinions: For, although Mr. Barton was, in truth,
warmly attached to the principles of the English whigs; and had, on
various occasions, manifested his zeal for the liberties of the
American people and rights of the colonists;[201] his opinions were
conscientiously opposed, and only these, to the expediency of that
measure. Yet it is believed, that the personal friendship of these
intimate relatives was far from having ever subsided: the ties that
early united them, were of the strongest kind; that union was of long
continuance; and they were mutually sensible of each other’s worth
and talents.
The name of the Rev. Mr. Barton, which has hitherto been so often
introduced in the course of these Memoirs, is closely connected with
that of Mr. Rittenhouse, in many of the more striking traits of his Life:
the writer cannot, therefore, restrain himself from acknowledging,
that he is happy in having this fair opportunity of rendering some
small tribute of respect—and, for himself, of filial veneration—to the
memory of a man distinguished by his virtue, his talents, and his
learning; one, who, independently of those considerations, alone,
which arose out of the American revolution, long enjoyed the
friendship and esteem of many of the most prominent characters in
America, by reason of his abilities and usefulness, as well as the
urbanity of his manners. To have said less of this person, would be
doing injustice to the life and character of Mr. Rittenhouse: to say
more, would perhaps be deemed irrelevant to the subject; if not
indecorous, as it regards the writer.