Consider the Following News Headline: "Minister of Defence Announces $2

question 93

Multiple Choice

Consider the following news headline: "Minister of Defence announces $2 billion purchase of military helicopters." Assuming that aggregate output is demand-determined,and that the helicopters are purchased domestically,what will be the effect of this action,all other things equal,on the AE function and 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:

Significance Level

In statistics, a threshold for determining how significant the results of an experiment are, often used in hypothesis testing to gauge the probability of incorrectly rejecting a true null hypothesis.

Sample Weigh-Ins

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Confidence Interval

A spectrum of figures, taken from sample observations, possibly enclosing the value of an undetermined population characteristic.

Margin Of Error

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