You Hold an Apple in One Hand and an Orange

question 73

Multiple Choice

You hold an apple in one hand and an orange in the other. If you doubled the mass of the apple and tripled the mass of the orange, without changing the distance between them, the gravitational force between them would be

• A) unchanged, because it is zero both before and after the mass alterations.
• B) five times larger.
• C) six times larger.
• D) three times larger.
• E) doubled.

Recognize the mechanisms used by markets to mitigate adverse selection and information asymmetry.

Identify market failures and government interventions aimed at correcting them.

Calculate and understand consumer surplus and producer surplus from transactions.

Distinguish between different types of market problems such as moral hazard and adverse selection.

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