5. Suppose the production function in medieval Europe is Y=K 0.5 L 0.5 , where K is the amount of land and L is the amount of labor. The economy begins with 100 units of land and 100 units of labor. Use a calculator and equations in the chapter to find a numerical answer to each of the following questions. a. How much output does the economy produce? b. What are the wage and the rental price of land? c. What share of output does labor receive? d. If a plague kills half the population, what is the new level of output? e. What are the new wage and rental price of land? f. What share of output does labor receive now?

He set of companies a product goes through on the way to the consumer is called the a. economic utility b. cottage industry c. market saturation d. distribution chain

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Choose the statement that is incorrect. a. search activity occurs only in markets where there is a shortage. b. when a price is regulated and there is a shortage, search activity increases. c. the time spent looking for someone with whom to do business is called search activity. d. the opportunity cost of a good is equal to its price plus the value of the search time spent finding the good.