Luis is going to receive $20,000 six years from now. Soo Lee is going to receive $20,000 nine years from now. Which one of the following statements is correct if both Luis and Soo Lee apply a 7 percent discount rate to these amounts?a. The present values of Luis and Soo Lee's money are equal. b. In future dollars, Soo Lee's money is worth more than Luis's money. c. In today's dollars, Luis's money is worth more than Soo Lee's. d. Twenty years from now, the value of Luis's money will be equal to the value of Soo Lee's money. e. Soo Lee's money is worth more than Luis's money given the 7 percent discount rate.

Which of the following best explains why online retail companies have an advantage over regular stores? a. their employees make less money because they mostly perform unskilled tasks. b. they are able to keep distribution costs low by negotiating deals with shipping companies. c. their transactions require expensive state-of-the-art technological devices. d. they have a larger number of potential customers because people anywhere can buy from them.

Investors who put their own money into a startup are known as a. mannequins b. obligators c. angels d. borrowers

6. why the aggregate supply curve slopes upward in the short run in the short run, the quantity of output that firms supply can deviate from the natural level of output if the actual price level in the economy deviates from the expected price level. several theories explain how this might happen. for example, the misperceptions theory asserts that changes in the price level can temporarily mislead firms about what is happening to their output prices. consider a soybean farmer who expects a price level of 100 in the coming year. if the actual price level turns out to be 90, soybean prices will , and if the farmer mistakenly assumes that the price of soybeans declined relative to other prices of goods and services, she will respond by the quantity of soybeans supplied. if other producers in this economy mistake changes in the price level for changes in their relative prices, the unexpected decrease in the price level causes the quantity of output supplied to the natural level of output in the short run.