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Answer True if it is included in the calculation of GDP or False if it is not included in the calculation of GDP for the event described below.   The local government builds a brand new school.

You can either spend $100 on a new economics textbook or a new tablet.  If you choose to buy the new economics textbook, the opportunity cost is:

What type of unemployment results from an improvement of technology that leaves workers displaced?

What do economists mean by scarcity?

Answer True if it is included in the calculation of GDP or False if it is not included in the calculation of GDP for the event described below.    A computer manufacturer purchases hard drives in install in the new computers it sells.

Among all of the topics covered in this course up through the first decade of the 21st century, what do you think are the three most important topics and why?  This is a reasoning question, so be sure that your essay response to the prompt explains your reasoning (explains why you think the 3 topics you’ve chosen to write about are most important). Guidelines must provide an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph (and body paragraphs), must rely on assigned historical information, topics must come from assigned learning modules — included in either primary documents, textbook chapters assigned, and video lectures assigned, essays must contain specifics — such as the names of people, names of concepts, names of events, names of sources, names of technologies, names of laws, names of organizations, names of famous or not-so-famous court cases AND accurate dates! essays must contain explanations of aforementioned names!

(Questions 18-25) Use Class Size by School District.xlsx (sample data) to answer the following questions. 

22. In the one-way ANOVA test for the sharpness differences by brand, what is the F-ratio (indicate at least two decimal places)? 

You are interested in whether class size differs by core subject. Which of the following statements is correct?

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the correlation coefficient?