Take a Deck of Playing Cards and Remove the Aces,jacks,queens,and

question 75

Multiple Choice

Take a deck of playing cards and remove the aces,jacks,queens,and kings.Imagine that any remaining card in the deck is a single individual,either a seller or a consumer,and all are gathered at a single perfectly competitive market.Red cards are sellers,and black cards are consumers.The number on a card indicates the individual's reservation price.Each seller owns a single unit of an indivisible good.Each consumer can buy at most one unit of the good from a seller.The invisible hand predicts that the market outcome will be ________.

• A) equilibrium price = 6, and units sold = 5
• B) equilibrium price = 6, and units sold = 10
• C) equilibrium price = 3, and units sold = 5
• D) equilibrium price = 5, and units sold = 6

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