(0.5 points) By commodity 6. What is a country’s GDP? (0.5 points) gross domestic product Lesson 2 (3.0 points) 1. What is a market economy? (0.5 points) economic system that is regulated by the interactions between producers and consumers.
Section 1 Study Questions (9.0 points) Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1. Name at least two things financial planning could help you do. (0.5 points) Create a budget.
Section 2 Study Questions (9.0 points) Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1. What is renting? (0.5 points) is when you pay to use something that belongs to someone else 2.
Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1. What is renting? (0.5 points) Renting is when you pay to use something that belongs to someone else. 2. What is a financial plan?
Section 4 Study Questions (12.0 points) Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. Lesson 1 (3.0 points) What is a money market account? (0.5 points) A money market is a common type of account offered by banks that is used just as a savings account it. In a money market account you invest your money in low risk investments with predictable interest rates.
What are consumer motives? (0.5 points) Consumer motives are the reasons why people make specific choices in spending their money. 2. What is a specialty good? (0.5 points) Specialty goods are items that the consumer considers special and luxurious.
Discuss surplus-enhancing transactions in markets 6. Explain how elasticity affects the way in which the burden of a per-unit tax is shared between buyers and sellers 7. Explain how elasticity affects the size of the deadweight loss created by a per-unit tax **NOTE: All of chapter 5 of Hubbard, Garnett, Lewis and O’Brien (2011) Microeconomics, 2nd edition, Pearson is required reading. 1. Consumer surplus The difference between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay for a good or service, and the price they actually pay.
(0.5 points) Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) 4. What is liability insurance? (0.5 points) Insurance that protects you by helping to cover costs that are caused by events you're responsible for. 5. What does property insurance cover?
3.0 points) 5. Describe a real or made up but realistic example of earned income that you or someone you know has received. What type of work was the income from? Was the income in the form of a salary or wages? (1-2 sentences.
What is the process of earning your income sometimes called? (0.5 points) Earning a living 3. Name at least two industries. (1.0 points) Manufacturing and Trade 4. What is an internship?