If Capital and Labor Each Grow 5% in a Year,the

question 48

Multiple Choice

If capital and labor each grow 5% in a year,the elasticities of output with respect to capital and labor sum to one,and productivity grows 2% in the year,by how much does output grow during the year?

• A)2%
• B)3%
• C)5%
• D)7%

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Definitions:

Sample

A subset of individuals or units from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

Population

The entire pool from which a sample is drawn for statistical analysis. It can include people, objects, or events depending on the study.

Variance

Measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; mathematically, it is the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.