Assume That the Production of a Good Imposes External Costs

question 112

Multiple Choice

Assume that the production of a good imposes external costs upon third parties. If the price and quantity of this good is set by supply and demand the price will be too:

• A) high and quantity too low for efficient resource allocation.
• B) low and quantity too low for efficient resource allocation.
• C) low and quantity too high for efficient resource allocation.
• D) high and quantity too high for efficient resource allocation.

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Definitions:

Level Of Significance

A threshold used in hypothesis testing, below which the null hypothesis is rejected.

Confidence Interval

A gamut of values, taken from sample statistics, considered likely to include the value of a hidden population attribute.

Population Proportion

The fraction or percentage of members in a population that have a particular attribute.

Sample Size

The number of individual observations or units included in a sample from a population, affecting the precision of the study's estimates.