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 Questions personnelles: Answer these questions using the expressions pendant, depuis, or il y a. Est-ce que vous avez vu un film étranger récemment?

La routine: It is Sunday and each member of your family is following his or her usual routine. Using venir and the passé récent, write a complete sentence about an activity that someone has just done at each of these times. 8h30 du matin

You are told that the cost function for a firm that makes only one product is the following: Based on this information, the fixed cost of producing 10 quantity is: 

You are the manager of a winery in California.  You learn that the price of French wine is increasing.  Using the supply and demand model, make a prediction as to what will happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for California wine.

A small farmer reports $200,000 in accounting profit from planting corn this year. A managerial economics student scoffs and says, “Your economic profit is probably zero.” What does the (slightly rude) student mean by this? In your answer, explain what implicit costs the farmer’s $200,000 accounting profit likely fails to capture and explain why “economic profit = zero” is not an insult.

The average fixed cost falls as quantity rises.  Give a real-world example or some real-world intuition as to why AFC must fall as quantity increases.

Which answer represents the exponential notation of 1/4000?

Why does heat go from hot to cold but not from cold to hot?

Which ionizing radiation type differs from an x-ray only in where it originates?

Children’s Motrin is sold as a solution that has 0.100 g of ibuprofen (C13H18O2) in 5.00 mL of solution. What is the molarity of ibuprofen in the solution?