Which of the Following Statements Is Not Correct

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is not correct?

• A)Medical research can be an example of a public good.
• B)The private market will tend to undersupply public goods.
• C)The free-rider problem occurs when a good is nonexcludable.
• D)All goods provided by the government are public goods.

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Definitions:

Mean

The mean of a collection of numbers, found by summing all the numbers and then dividing by the total number of values.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree of unevenness or spread among values in a statistical set.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the values by the number of values.

Least Squares

Least squares is a mathematical method used to find the best-fitting line or curve to a set of points by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed and estimated values.