Refer to Scenario 3

question 297

Multiple Choice

Refer to Scenario 3.2 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
SCENARIO 3.2: Lettuce and spinach are substitutes. Lettuce and tomatoes are complements. Lettuce is a normal good. During the winter, about 20% of the lettuce crop was destroyed by flooding.
-Refer to Scenario 3.2. The floods that destroyed part of the lettuce crop would have caused the equilibrium price of spinach to ________ and the equilibrium quantity of spinach to ________.

• A) decrease; decrease
• B) decrease; increase
• C) increase; increase
• D) increase; decrease

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Mean

A numerical metric that denotes the central value of a numerical array, determined by summing all the elements in the array and then dividing by the count of those elements.

Internal Reliability

A measure of consistency among multiple items or parts of a test or measurement tool.

Questionnaire

A set of written questions used for collecting information from respondents.