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A spaceship is designed to support animal life for a multiyear voyage to the outer planets of the solar system. Plants will be grown to provide oxygen and to recycle carbon dioxide. Because the spaceship will be too far from the sun for photosynthesis, an artificial light source will be needed.
-What wavelengths of light should be used to maximize plant growth with a minimum of energy expenditure?


Definitions:

Price Elasticity

A measure in economics that shows how the quantity demanded of a good or service responds to a change in its price.

Total Expenditures

The sum of all spending by consumers, businesses, and the government in an economy.

Price Elasticity

A reflection of how the market's demand for a good is affected by its price dynamics.

Midpoint Method

A technique used to calculate the elasticity of demand or supply between two points on a curve by averaging the two points' quantities and prices.

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