When Plasma Television Sets Were First Introduced Prices Were High

question 267

Multiple Choice

When plasma television sets were first introduced prices were high and few firms were in the market.Later, economic profits attracted new firms and the price of plasma televisions fell.This example illustrates

• A)a decreasing-cost industry.
• B)that consumers receive this new technology "free of charge" in the sense that they only have to pay a price for plasma televisions equal to the lowest production cost.
• C)an industry with a low minimum efficient scale.
• D)how fickle consumer demands are.

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Definitions:

Margin of Error

The maximum amount by which the sample results are expected to differ from the true population value.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.

Skewed

Skewed describes a distribution that is asymmetrical, where its tail extends more on one side than the other, often used in statistical data analysis.