A bakery sells individual cupcakes for $3, and boxes of 12 cupcakes for $30. A customer enters the bakery. This customer purchases 15 cupcakes—1 box for $30, and 3 individual cupcakes for $3 each. Which of the following must be true of the customer’s willingness to pay? 1) The customer would not have purchased the cupcakes if the price for all 15 had been $45.
2) The customer’s willingness to pay for the 15 cupcakes is $39.
3) The customer’s willingness to pay for 12 cupcakes is $30.
4) The customer’s willingness to pay for 16 cupcakes is less than $42.

Josie, an unmarried taxpayer, has $155,000 in salary, $10,000 in income from a passive investment in a limited partnership, and a $26,000 passive loss from a real estate rental activity in which she actively participates. if her modified adjusted gross income is $155,000, how much of the $26,000 loss is deductible

Every 10 years, the federal government sponsors a national survey of health and health practices (nhanes). one question in the survey asks participants to rate their overall health using a 5-point rating scale. what is the scale of measurement used for this question? ratio ordinal interval nominal

1. all other things equal, according to the law of demand, when the price of a good falls, the demand for the good falls the demand for the good rises the quantity demanded of the good falls the quantity demanded of the good rises 2. when a market is in equilibrium, the quantity of the good that buyers are willing and able to buy exactly equals the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell cannot be determined is less than the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell is greater than the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell 3. which of the following factors does not influence the demand for a good or service? consumer (buyer) income the price of related goods the number of sellers buyer expectations 4. when the number of sellers in a market increases, demand rises supply rises the price rises, all else equal the number of buyers falls