Which of the Following Is Not an Example of a Free

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an example of a free rider problem?

• A)Sally listens to public radio but never contributes to her local station.
• B)Fred benefits when the National Guard arrives to help create a flood wall around his town, but he is so poor that he pays no taxes.
• C)Joe works with two other students on a group project for his intermediate microeconomics class. The grade is based on a group paper, but Joe goes to a movie instead of working on the paper because he knows that the other group members will write it without him.
• D)John goes into his local corner shop and walks out with an apple without paying for it.

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Definitions:

Groups

Collections of individuals or items classified together based on common characteristics or attributes.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical method used to compare the means of three or more independent groups to ascertain if there are any statistically significant differences among them.

F-ratio

A statistical measure used in the analysis of variance (ANOVA), calculated by dividing the variance among group means by the variance within the groups.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, used as a starting point for statistical significance testing.