The Question of Who Pays the Greater Amount of a Commodity

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Multiple Choice

The question of who pays the greater amount of a commodity tax is determined by:

• A) Congress.
• B) the President of the United States.
• C) the relative elasticities of demand and supply.
• D) the individual who writes the check for the tax.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, where data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A distribution where probabilities are mirrored on either side of the mean, illustrating higher frequency of events near the average.