TABLE 15-3 a Chemist Employed by a Pharmaceutical Firm Has Developed a Developed

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TABLE 15-3
A chemist employed by a pharmaceutical firm has developed a muscle relaxant. She took a sample of 14 people suffering from extreme muscle constriction. She gave each a vial containing a dose (X) of the drug and recorded the time to relief (Y) measured in seconds for each. She fit a "centered" curvilinear model to this data. The results obtained by Microsoft Excel follow, where the dose (X) given has been "centered."

-Referring to Table 15-3, suppose the chemist decides to use a t test to determine if the linear term is significant. The value of the test statistic is ________.

Determine the factors that lead to changes in industry size in the long run including economic profits and losses.

Understand the significance of economic profits and normal profits in the decision-making process of firms in purely competitive markets.

Describe the relationship between market demand, economic profits/losses, and industry adjustments in the long run.

Analyze the impact of consumer demand on purely competitive industries and the resultant equilibrium.

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