Table 1-1 Lydia Runs a Small Nail Salon in the Town of Salon

question 122

Multiple Choice

Table 1-1

Lydia runs a small nail salon in the town of New Hope. She is debating whether she should extend her hours of operation. Lydia figures that her sales revenue will depend on the number of hours the nail salon is open as shown in the table above. She would have to hire a worker for those hours at a wage rate of $10 per hour.
-Refer to Table 1-1.Using marginal analysis,determine how many hours should Lydia extend her nail salon's hours of operations?

• A) 2 hours
• B) 3 hours
• C) 4 hours
• D) 5 hours
• E) 6 hours

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Definitions:

Money Supply

The all-inclusive measure of monetary resources present in an economy at a specific juncture.

Interest Rates

The cost of borrowing money or the return for investing, typically expressed as a percentage of the principal, varying over time based on economic conditions.

Deposit Expansion Multiplier

The ratio that measures the potential increase in total deposits in the banking system generated from an increase in primary deposits.

Excess Reserves

Funds that banks hold over and above the required reserve ratio set by a central banking authority, often for safety or emergency purposes.