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A bill has been submitted to the State House of Representatives that is designed to reduce the cost of health care by increasing the patient-to-nurse ratio from a maximum of 2:1 in intensive care units to 3:1.The nurse realizes that


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Total Market Output

The total quantity of goods or services produced and offered for sale within a market by all firms.

Downward Sloping

A graphical representation indicating that one variable decreases as another increases, commonly used to describe demand curves in economics.

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