Which of the following statements is true?
a. because the demand curve for a monopolistically competitive firm is downwardminussloping its marginal revenue will be negative.
b. the marginal revenue of a monopolistically competitive firm will be always be positive.
c. the marginal revenue of a monopolistically competitive firm will be positive at high prices and negative at low prices.
d. the marginal revenue of a monopolistically competitive firm will be positive at low prices and negative at high prices.

Which of the following statements are false regarding activity-based costing? non-manufacturing costs are important to include when calculating the cost of each product. costs are allocated based on a pre-determined overhead rate. transitioning from traditional costing methods to activity-based costing can be complicated and costly. activity-based costing follows the same basic calculation methods as traditional costing approaches. none of the above

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.

5. if you were to take a typical payday loan for $150, with an interest rate of 24.5% due in full after two weeks, what is the total amount you would have to repay? a. $186.75 b. $174.50 c. $157.33 d. $153.67