Which of the Following Statements Is True for Markets in Which

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true for markets in which the demand curve slopes downward and the supply curve slopes upward?

• A)As the size of the tax increases,tax revenue continually rises and deadweight loss continually falls.
• B)As the size of the tax increases,tax revenue and deadweight loss rise initially,but both eventually begin to fall.
• C)As the size of the tax increases,tax revenue rises initially,but it eventually begins to fall;deadweight loss continually rises.
• D)As the size of the tax increases,tax revenue rises initially,but it eventually begins to fall;deadweight loss falls initially,but eventually it begins to rise.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion representing how much the data points in a data set diverge from the mean value.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the number of numbers.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a dataset, quantifying how far each data point lies from the mean.