A Survey Reveals That, on a Small Island, Initially 1,000

question 146

Multiple Choice

A survey reveals that, on a small island, initially 1,000 people have jobs, 200 people are unemployed but are looking for jobs, and 200 people are neither working nor looking for work. Suppose that 100 of the 200 people who weren't looking for work now begin looking for work and that half of the new entrants find a job. The unemployment rate:

• A) rises to 19.2%.
• B) rises to 21.4%.
• C) rises to 28.6%.
• D) Nothing happens to the unemployment rate.

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Definitions:

Constant Rate

A fixed value of change in a quantity with respect to another quantity, often used in mathematics and economics to describe steady growth or decline.

Opportunity Cost

Missing potential benefits that could have been gained from unchosen options when deciding on one.

Production Possibilities

A graphical representation that shows the maximum combination of goods or services that can be produced with a fixed amount of resources.

Production Possibilities Frontier

A curve depicting all maximum output possibilities for two goods, given a set of inputs representing resource allocation.