Utility Software Provides Additional Functionality to the Operating System

question 96

True/False

Utility software provides additional functionality to the operating system.

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Definitions:

Deadweight Loss

The lost economic efficiency when the equitable or allocatively efficient outcome is not achieved, often due to taxes, subsidies, or monopolies.

Excise Tax

A tax imposed on specific goods, services, or activities, usually to discourage their use or to raise revenue.

Elasticities

Measurements of how changing one economic variable affects others, such as how quantity demanded will change as a result of price changes.

Subsidy Benefit

Government-provided support to aid businesses, individuals, or sectors of the economy through financial help.