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question 26

Multiple Choice

A 1.6-kg ball is attached to the end of a 0.40-m string to form a pendulum. This pendulum is released from rest with the string horizontal. At the lowest point of its swing, when it is moving horizontally, the ball collides with a 0.80-kg block initially at rest on a horizontal frictionless surface. The speed of the block just after the collision is 3.0 m/s. What is the speed of the ball just after the collision?

• A) 1.7 m/s
• B) 1.1 m/s
• C) 1.5 m/s
• D) 1.3 m/s
• E) 2.1 m/s

Discuss the challenges and criticisms of fiscal policy as a tool for economic stabilization.

Describe how misestimates of natural unemployment rates can affect economic policies and outcomes.

Understand the implications of using a uniform cost of capital for project evaluation and its potential impact on a firm's risk profile and intrinsic value.

Identify and calculate a firm's cost of capital using various models such as the CAPM.

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Definitions:

Perfect Competition

A market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, free entry and exit, and a homogeneous product, leading to no single entity having market power.

Marginal Unit

Refers to the additional or incremental unit of a good or service considered in analysis or decision-making.

Perfect Competition

A market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, free entry and exit, and a homogeneous product, leading to price-taking behavior.

Market Price

The existing rate at which an asset or service may be acquired or disposed of on the market.