Consider the Following News Headline: "Government Follows Through on Election

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Multiple Choice

Consider the following news headline: "Government follows through on election promise-cuts income-tax rate by 5 percentage points." Assuming that aggregate output is demand-determined,what will be the effect of this action,all other things equal,on the AE function and on equilibrium national income?

• A)The AE function will shift down parallel to itself,and equilibrium national income will fall.
• B)The AE function will rotate upward (become steeper),and equilibrium national income will rise.
• C)The AE function will rotate downward (become flatter),and national income will fall.
• D)The AE function will shift up parallel to itself,and equilibrium national income will rise.
• E)There will be no change in the AE function or in equilibrium national income.

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Definitions:

Negative

A value less than zero or a direction opposite to the expected or common.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Sample Size

The number of observations or individuals in a subset of a population used for statistical analysis.

Random Sample

A subset of individuals chosen from a larger set, where each individual has an equal chance of being selected.