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In January 2013 certain tax rates increased, which were predicted to increase the federal government’s tax revenue. An increase in tax revenue ________ the government’s budget deficit and over time thereby ________ the amount of government debt.

In an economy with no income taxes or imports, the multiplier equals

During an expansion, tax revenues ________ and government transfer payments ________.

The government’s budget deficit or surplus equals the

Oral Entrevista grade from Zoom will be added to your exam (25 points).

Read the following statements. Then listen to a description of a family’s life and indicate whether each statement is cierto o falso. You will use this audio for questions 6-10. fianl_test_3.mp3    Marta es ecuatoriana.

A pair of islands with nearly identical habitat and resources are occupied by populations of lizards with identical allele frequencies at time point 0.  These islands are relatively small and the lizard populations never exceed 150 individuals at any given time.  Migration between these populations is virtually non-existent. If you were to return to these islands and do a population genetic assessment of the populations after 100 generations had passed, what kinds of genetic patterns would you expect to find when you compare the genetics of the populations to the initial assessment at time point 0, and when you compare the two populations to each other at time point 100? Explain. (4)

In conducting a common garden experiment with ragweed plants you calculate phenotypic and genotypic variance estimates on plant height.    Variance Type                          Phenotypic                   91.2     Additive Genetic          41.8     Dominance Genetic      24.2     Epistatic Genetic          12.6       You conduct a selection experiment in an effort to increase height in these plants.  If the initial mean height is 367 cm and the mean height of the breeding population is 428 cm, what would you expect the mean height of the population be in the next generation? Provide your estimate to the nearest two decimal places. (3)

6) Multiply, simplify if necessary:

24) Multiply, simplify if necessary: