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question 511

Multiple Choice

Table 12-2
-Refer to Table 12-2. Suppose that the government imposes a $2 tax on delights, causing the price to increase from $4.00 to $6.00. Total consumer surplus

• A)falls by less than the tax revenue generated.
• B)falls by more than the tax revenue generated.
• C)falls by the same amount as the tax revenue generated.
• D)will not fall since Jennifer will no longer be in the market.

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Definitions:

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.