Which of the Following Is a Primary Difference Between Price

question 236

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a primary difference between price searchers and price takers?

• A) Price searchers maximize profits, but price takers do not.
• B) Price searchers have to cut their price to sell additional output, but price takers do not.
• C) The market demand for goods produced by price searchers is downward sloping, while the market demand for goods produced by price takers is horizontal.
• D) Profit-maximizing price searchers will expand output to the quantity where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, but price takers will not.

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Definitions:

Marginal Propensity

The fraction or portion of an additional amount of income that is spent on consumption, saving, or other economic activities.

Alternative Hypotheses

A statement in hypothesis testing that is accepted if the evidence suggests that the null hypothesis is false.

Null Hypothesis

The default position that there is no association between two measured phenomena, or no difference among groups being compared.

P-Value

The probability of observing test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.