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Consider a Hypothetical Used Car Market in Which Fifty Percent

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Consider a hypothetical used car market in which fifty percent of the cars for sale are low-quality cars and fifty percent of the cars for sale are high-quality cars. Buyers know that half of the cars are high quality and half are low quality, but they do not know which individual cars are high quality and low quality. Sellers know whether their cars are high quality or low quality. Buyers would be willing to pay at most $2,000 for a low-quality car and at most $8,000 for a high-quality car. Sellers of low-quality cars have a willingness to sell of $1,500. Sellers of high-quality cars have a willingness to sell of $7,000.Which of the following statements is true?It is efficient for the plums to be sold but not the lemons.Buyers will never buy lemons.The price of a used car will be no more than $2,000.The price of a used car will be no more than $7,000.

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