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BSNS 113 FINAL EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
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BSNS 113 FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2026-2027
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND
NEW!!
Which of the following is most likely a macroeconomic topic? -
ANSWER- The role of the Reserve Bank in controlling
inflation.
Consider the following two statements:
Humans tend to have effectively unlimited wants for goods and
services.
Humans should limit their consumption for the sake of the
environment.
Which of the following is true? - ANSWER- (i) is a positive
statement and (ii) a normative statement.
Suppose that to sit an exam you had to take three hours off from
your tele-marketing job that you do from home. The job pays
$30 per hour. As well, because you live on the other side of
town, you had to pay $10 in total for buses to get to the exam
and back. You had to bring a pencil, which you already owned.
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What is the opportunity cost to you of sitting this exam? -
ANSWER- $100 plus a few cents for the 'wear-and-tear' to your
pencil.
After leaving high school, Sandra considered three options for
what to do next, listed in order of preference:
(1) attend Otago University,
(2) work at Speights brewery in Dunedin, or
(3) attend Auckland University.
Sandra's opportunity cost of attending Otago Uni is the -
ANSWER- direct cost of attending Otago Uni (fees, books, etc.)
plus the income and work experience she could have earned at
the brewery.
You paid $100 for a ticket (which is non-refundable) to go to a
concert on Saturday night. Your boss calls Saturday afternoon to
see if you're willing to work for three hours that night. She'll pay
you $20 per hour instead of your usual $10. What is your
opportunity cost if you choose to go to the concert? - ANSWER-
$60
Imagine a country where it is not yet compulsory to wear seat
belts in cars. If wearing seat belts was made compulsory, this is
likely to - ANSWER- lead to more injuries to cyclists
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The slope of the production possibilities frontier (PPF) -
ANSWER- should be interpreted as the opportunity cost of a
one unit increase in production of the good measured on the
horizontal axis.
What effect did the destructive earthquake that hit Christchurch
in 2011 likely have on New Zealand's PPF? - ANSWER- It
shifted the PPF inward.
Refer to Figure 1. Which of the points on the diagram represent
technically feasible combinations of goods and services
producible in New Zealand? - ANSWER- A, B and C only
Refer to Figure 1 in the previous question. Which of the points
on the diagram represent combinations of goods and services
that require technically efficient production methods? -
ANSWER- A and B
There are 'gains from trade' because the productivity of
resources varies - ANSWER- due to all of the types of variation
in answers (1), (2), and (3) above.
- geographically, with the scale of production, across resources
units of the same type (e.g. labour).
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Economies of scale refers to - ANSWER- the decrease in
minimum average production cost as the firm expands capacity
to increase output per time period.
Consider a production process that benefits from economies of
scale. Suppose that the price of labour (the wage rate) increases.
In that case, the long-run average production cost curve will -
ANSWER- shift up, but possibly by less than the change in the
wage rate times the number of labour hours because the firm
will have time to substitute other inputs, e.g., automation, for
higher-cost labour.
Refer to Figure 1. The opportunity cost of producing each tonne
of beef in Peru is - ANSWER- 3 tonnes of fruit.
Refer to Figure 1. Argentina has an absolute advantage in
production of - ANSWER- both fruit and beef.
Refer to Figure 1. Assuming trade between the countries, Peru is
likely to export - ANSWER- fruit
Refer to Figure 1. Suppose the cattle breeders in Argentina
selectively breed cattle that process grass more efficiently; these
new cattle put on more muscle (i.e. beef) while eating the sameÂ
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