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If Government Officials Are Mainly Interested in Generating Tax Revenue

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If government officials are mainly interested in generating tax revenue, then they should tax goods for which demand is price elastic.


Definitions:

Non-directional

A hypothesis that does not specify the direction of the expected difference or relationship, indicating only that there is a difference.

Z-statistic

A numerical indicator that shows how a specific value compares to the average of a dataset, expressed as the number of standard deviations away from the mean.

Two-tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the area of rejection is on both sides of the sampling distribution, allowing for testing in both directions.

Z-statistic

A statistical measure that quantifies the distance (in standard deviation units) a data point is from the mean of a distribution.

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