Use the Following Information to Answer the Question(s)below

question 44

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.Consider the following four alternatives:
1.$132 received in two years.
2.$160 received in five years.
3.$200 received in eight years.
4.$220 received in ten years.
-The ranking of the four alternatives from most valuable to least valuable if the interest rate is 6% per year would be:

• A)1,2,3,4.
• B)1,3,2,4.
• C)4,3,1,2.
• D)3,4,2,1.

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Definitions:

Wage Rates

The amount of money paid to an employee per unit of time, such as an hour or month, for labor or services.

Labor Demand

The total amount of workers that employers are willing and able to hire at a given wage rate in a given period.

Marginal Product

The additional output generated by employing one more unit of a particular input, such as labor or capital, while holding other inputs constant.

Purely Competitive Market

A market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, all of whom are selling identical products, allowing no single participant to influence market prices.