In an economy, the working-age population is 300 million. Of this total, 240 million workers are employed. 9 million workers are unemployed. 42 million workers are not available for work (homemakers, full-time students, etc.). 6 million workers are available for work but are discouraged and thus are not seeking work. 3 million workers are available for work but are not currently seeking work due to transportation or childcare problems.
The unemployment rate in this economy is:

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)

Which of the following situations is most likely to change a buyer's market into a seller's market? a. a natural disaster that drives away a lot of the population. b. the price of building materials suddenly going up. c. the government buys up a lot of houses to build a new freeway. d. a factory laying off a lot of workers in the area.

To travelers know what to expect researchers collect the prices of commodities