By the End of High School, About How Many of American

question 143

Multiple Choice

By the end of high school, about how many of American adolescents will have had sexual intercourse?

• A) one-quarter
• B) one-third
• C) one-half
• D) two-thirds

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Definitions:

Long-run Equilibrium

A state in which all factors of production and inputs can be fully adjusted, and there are no fixed variables, resulting in market supply equalling market demand.

Marginal Cost

Marginal cost is the change in total production cost that comes from making or producing one additional unit of a good.

Perfectly Competitive

Refers to a market structure where there are many buyers and sellers, all producing homogenous products, with no single participant having the power to influence the market price.

Industry Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good and the total output of the industry for that good.