Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 31

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
-(Table: Externalities from Parks) The table Externalities from Parks shows the marginal social benefit and the marginal social cost of preserving various amounts of land in a city for a public park. The socially optimum amount of land dedicated to the public park will be _____ acres.

• A) 0
• B) 1
• C) 3
• D) 9

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Definitions:

Opposite Directions

A term indicating movements or trends that are diametrically contrary to each other in a physical or metaphorical sense.

Upward Sloping

A term often used to describe a line on a graph that shows an increase in a variable as another variable increases, indicative of a direct relationship.

Positively Related

A term describing the relationship between two variables where they move in the same direction; when one increases, the other also increases, and vice versa.

Omitted Variable Bias

Omitted Variable Bias occurs in statistical models when a relevant variable is left out of the model, potentially leading to incorrect conclusions about the relationship between the variables of interest.