As the chance of getting a low-quality good increases, buyers are willing to pay for a used car and the quantity of high-quality cars will tend to , resulting in a so-called .less, fall, thin market Unselected less, rise, thin market Unselected more, disappear, thick market

Define the marginal rate of substitution between two goods (x and y). if a consumer’s preferences are given by u(x,y) = x3/4y1/4, compute the consumer’s marginal rate of substitution as a function of x and y. calculate the mrs if the consumer has chosen to consumer 48 units of x and 16 units of y. show your work. (use the back of the page if necessary.

Salaries are $4,500 per week for five working days and are paid weekly at the end of the day fridays. the end of the month falls on a thursday. the accountant for dayton company made the appropriate accrual adjustment and posted it to the ledger. the balance of salaries payable, as shown on the adjusted trial balance, will be a (assume that there was no beginning balance in the salaries payable account.)

An investor purchases 500 shares of nevada industries common stock for $22.00 per share today. at t = 1 year, this investor receives a $0.42 per share dividend (which is not reinvested) on the 500 shares and purchases an additional 500 shares for $24.75 per share. at t = 2 years, he receives another $0.42 (not reinvested) per share dividend on 1,000 shares and purchases 600 more shares for $31.25 per share. at t = 3 years, he sells 1,000 of the shares for $35.50 per share and the remaining 600 shares at $36.00 per share, but receives no dividends. assuming no commissions or taxes, the money-weighted rate of return received on this investment is closest to: