Competitive Markets with No External Costs or Benefits and No

question 173

Multiple Choice

Competitive markets with no external costs or benefits and no government price ceilings, floors, taxes or subsidies ________ efficient. According to the "It's not fair if the rules aren't fair" idea of fairness, competitive markets ________ fair.

• A) are; are
• B) are; are not
• C) are not; are
• D) are not; are not

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Definitions:

Population Variances

A measure of the spread of a population's data points, representing the average of the squared differences from the population mean.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that suggests no significant difference or effect; it serves as a default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical test that analyzes the differences among three or more group means by comparing within-group variance to between-group variance.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution of data where most values cluster around a central mean value, with the distribution tapering off symmetrically towards both extremes.