What is the percentage change in the price of bicycles

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1. Suppose that when the price of bicycles is $100, 500 bicycles are demanded and when the price of bicycles is $200, 100 bicycles are demanded.

a. Using the standard percentage change formula (not the midpoint method), what is the percentage change in the price of bicycles if the initial price is $100?

b. Using the standard percentage change formula (not the midpoint method), what is the percentage change in the quantity of bicycles demanded if the initial price is $100?

c. Price elasticity of demand is defined as the percentage change in the quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in the price of the good. Using your calculations in parts (a) and (b) of this problem, what is the price elasticity of demand?

d. Using the standard percentage change formula, what is the percentage change in the price of bicycles if the initial price is $200?

e. Using the standard percentage change formula, what is the percentage change in the quantity of bicycles demanded if the initial price is $200?

f. Using your calculations from parts (d) and (e) of this problem, what is the price elasticity of demand?

g. Are the two measures you calculated in part (c) and part (f) the same? Explain your answer.

h. Suppose the initial price of bicycles is $100. Calculate the price elasticity of demand for bicycles using the midpoint method for calculating a percentage.

i. Suppose the initial price of bicycles is $200. Calculate the price elasticity of demand for bicycles using the midpoint method for calculating a percentage.

j. Compare your answers in parts (h) and (i). Are they the same? Explain the significance of your findings.

2. For each of the following scenarios determine if demand if elastic, inelastic, or unit elastic.

a. Joe can sell 100 shovels if he prices his shovels at $12 or he can sell 130 shovels if he prices his shovels at $10. The demand for shovels is _______________.

b. Emily sold lemonade on Tuesday for $.50 a cup and she sold 100 cups. On Thursday she raised the price to $1 a cup and sold 50 cups. The demand for lemonade is _________.

c. Martin can sell 2000 boxes of detergent if the price is $10 and 1800 boxes if the price is $11. Demand for detergent is __________.

3. You are told that the cross-price elasticity of demand of good X for good Y is a negative number. You conclude that good X and good Y are _____________.

4. You are told that the cross-price elasticity of demand of good A for good B is a positive number. You conclude that good A and good B are _____________.

5. You are told that your income elasticity of demand for potatoes is .1. If your income increases by 10% then the percentage change in the quantity of potatoes you demand is equal to _____________.

6. You are given the following information about production in Smallwood.

 

Quantity in 2008

Prices in 2008

Quantity in 2009

Prices in 2009

Muffins

100

$1

150

$2

Bagels

200

$2

150

$1

Suppose you are told that the market basket for purposes of calculating the CPI in Smallwood is defined as 20 bagels and 40 muffins.

a. Calculate the CPI in Smallwood for 2008 and 2009 using 2008 as the base year.

b. Based on your calculations in part (a), what was the rate of inflation between 2008 and 2009?

c. Holding everything else constant, recalculate the CPI for Smallwood using 2009 as the base year.

d. Based on your calculation in part (c), what was the rate of inflation between 2008 and 2009?

7. Relative to 2006, the inflation rate in Madison in 2007 was 8%. Furthermore, nominal wages in Madison rose 10% during this period.

a. What was the percentage change in real wages in Madison in 2007?

b. Is it possible for the CPI to increase and the nominal wage to increase, but for the real wage to decrease? Explain your answer.

8. Use the following information to construct the budget line for each individual. Draw the budget line on a separate graph, carefully labeling each axis. Provide an equation in slope-intercept form for each budget line.

a. Income of $100, price of good X equals $20 and price of good Y equals $10

b. Income of $100, price of good X equals $20 and price of good Y equals $20

c. Income of $100, price of good X is $10 and price of good Y is $10

d. Income is $200, price of good X is $20 and price of good Y is $10

e. Circle the right answer. Holding everything else constant, if income decrease this causes the individual's budget line to (shift in, shift out), (increases, decreases, has no effect on) the y-intercept and (increases, decreases, has no effect on) the slope of the budget line.

f. Circle the right answer. Holding everything else constant, if the price of good X decreases (assume X is measured on the horizontal axis), then the y-intercept of the budget line (increases, decreases, remains the same), the x-intercept of the budget line (increases, decreases, remains the same), and the slope of the budget line (is unaffected, has a smaller absolute value, has a larger absolute value).

g. Circle the right answer. Suppose income doubles and the prices of good X and good Y also double. This will cause the individual's budget line to (shift out, shift in, be unaffected). The new budget line (is identical to the original budget line, has a smaller slope in absolute value terms than the original budget line, has a larger slope in absolute value terms that the original budget line).

10. Suppose Sarah's available income to spend on coffee drinks and pizza is $100. Furthermore, suppose the price of coffee drinks is $5 and the price of pizza is $10.

a. Draw Sarah's budget line on a graph and label it BL1. Measure coffee drinks on the x0axis and pizza on the y-axis.

b. Suppose you are told that Sarah maximizes her utility when she consumes 8 pizzas. How many coffee drinks does Sarah consume given this information and all the preliminary information?

c. Suppose that Sarah's income remains at $100 but the price of coffee drinks changes to $10 while the price of pizza remains at $10. You are told that Sarah maximizes her utility when she consumes 3 coffee drinks. How many pizzas does Sarah consume when she maximizes her utility given these prices and her income?

d. Draw a graph illustrating Sarah's consumption choices when she faces these two different sets of prices. Label the first budget line BL1, the second budget line BL2, her utility maximization point with BL1 as point A, and her utility maximization point with BL2 as point B.

e. Suppose that given these two budget lines you are told that if Sarah had her income adjusted so that she could continue to enjoy her initial level of utility while paying the new prices (those described in part (c)) she would consume 3.5 coffee drinks and 9 pizzas. How much additional income would Sarah need in order to be able to maintain her utility at the initial level while paying the new prices?

f. What is the substitution effect measured in terms of coffee drinks?

g. What is the income effect measured in terms of coffee drinks?

11. Use the following information depicting a firm's short-run production function and cost function to answer this question.

L

K

Q

MPL

FC

VC

TC

AFC

AVC

ATC

MC

0

10

0

---

$100

 

 

---

---

---

---

1

 

 

80

 

$20

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

250

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

280

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a. Fill in the missing cells on the above table.

b. At what level of labor usage does this firm experience diminishing marginal returns to labor?

c. What is the price of a unit of labor?

d. What is the price of a unit of capital?

e. As output increases, what happens to this firm's fixed costs of production? Explain your answer.

f. As output increases, what happens to the firm's variable costs of production? Explain your answer.

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