Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts
Micro · Unit 1 · Paper 3

Basic Economic Concepts unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 24 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 3” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 37 min 34 points0/17 attempted
1

Utility-maximizing rule

2

Why the PPC bows outward

3

Explicit vs implicit costs

4

Terms of trade

5

Calculating opportunity cost from an output table

6

Positive vs normative statements

7

Normal profit

8

Utility

9

Absolute advantage

10

Productive efficiency

11

Opportunity cost

12

Allocative efficiency

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Marginal analysis

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Market economy vs command economy

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Comparative advantage

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Constant opportunity cost

3 pts

Free response

10 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

LONG FREE-RESPONSE. Vantis Pharmaceuticals holds a patent and is the sole seller of a medication. Market demand is P = 120 − 2Q, and the firm’s marginal cost and average total cost are both constant at $40 per unit.

Draw a correctly labeled graph showing the demand, marginal revenue, and marginal cost curves for Vantis.

Calculate the profit-maximizing quantity and price, showing your work.

Calculate the firm’s economic profit.

Calculate consumer surplus at the monopoly price.

Identify the allocatively efficient quantity and explain why the monopoly outcome is not allocatively efficient.

Calculate the deadweight loss and shade it on your graph.

Suppose a regulator imposes a price ceiling of $40 per unit. Explain the effect on quantity, on economic profit, and on deadweight loss.