In which of the following situations would the price of a good be most likely to increase? A. A breakthrough in productive technology enables a company to increase its output. B. There's a sudden increase in the number of companies competing to sell the good. C. A drop in demand happens too quickly for producers to decrease production to keep up. D. An increase in production costs results from a rise in wages.

The authors of the paper "fudging the numbers: distributing chocolate influences student evaluations of an undergraduate course"† carried out a study to see if events unrelated to an undergraduate course could affect student evaluations. students enrolled in statistics courses taught by the same instructor participated in the study. all students attended the same lectures and one of six discussion sections that met once a week. at the end of the course, the researchers chose three of the discussion sections to be the "chocolate group." students in these three sections were offered chocolate prior to having them fill out course evaluations. students in the other three sections were not offered chocolate. the researchers concluded that "overall, students offered chocolate gave more positive evaluations than students not offered chocolate." indicate whether the study is an observational study or an experiment. give a brief explanation for your choice.

Which of the following is a primary reason why countries trade

The middle east has very limited fresh water sources in the form of rivers such as the nile, jordan, euphrates, and tigris rivers. however, these rivers are only located in a few countries. which country does not have one of these rivers within its borders?