Governments provide free public education for kindergarten through high school because Group of answer choices there are positive externalities when individuals are educated and without the subsidy education would be underproduced (i. e., there would too few people receiving K-12 education relative to the efficient outcome). there are negative externalities when individuals are educated and without the subsidy education would be overproduced (i. e. too many people would receive K-12 education relative to the efficient outcome). there are positive externalities when individuals are educated, but the subsidy does nothing to change how many people are educated there are positive externalities when individuals are educated and the subsidy helps to reduce the imperfect information problem

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Miller mfg. is analyzing a proposed project. the company expects to sell 14,300 units, plus or minus 3 percent. the expected variable cost per unit is $15 and the expected fixed cost is $35,000. the fixed and variable cost estimates are considered accurate within a plus or minus 3 percent range. the depreciation expense is $32,000. the tax rate is 34 percent. the sale price is estimated at $19 a unit, give or take 3 percent. what is the net income under the worst case scenario?

Which of the following is true of website content? it should be refreshed periodically to keep customers coming back. once the content has been written and proofread it shouldn't be changed. grammatical errors are not a problem because the customer visits the site to purchase a product, not check the site's grammar. it should be limited to text and shouldn't include multimedia.