If You Found Yourself "Up the Yazoo Without a Paddle

question 16

Multiple Choice

If you found yourself "up the yazoo without a paddle" you'd likely be _____________.

• A) in a meander cutoff oxbow lake across the cutbank from the main channel
• B) going up a low capacity parallel tributary on the other side of the levee from the main channel
• C) vainly wishing that you had read the textbook a little more closely
• D) following the wrong distributary upstream, never to intersect the main channel

Interpret production tables and figures to determine optimal production techniques.

Analyze the cost-minimization strategy of a firm based on the marginal product and price of inputs.

Understand how changes in input prices affect a firm's production choices.

Identify how changes in technology or productivity impact production methods.

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