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10-year-old Kermit walks into a toy store, TOYS 4 US!, to buy a cool new dump truck with his birthday savings. Two days later, the truck Kermit bought was deemed collectable (a collector’s item) and thus began selling on eBay for triple the price Kermit had paid. The TOYS 4 US! manager realizes this and attempts to cancel the contract he made with Kermit. Will this cancellation be successful? Why or why not?

Of the between-group and single-case design, which design would best answer the question, “What are the effects of a group contingency intervention on the in-seat behavior of a small group (5-7) of children in a special education classroom?”

Figure 22-2 In each case, the budget constraint moves from BC1 to BC2.   Graph (a) Graph (b) Graph (c) Graph (d) Refer to Figure 22-2. Which of the graphs in the figure could reflect a simultaneous decrease in the prices of both goods?

Table 10-4​ Quantity (Units) Private Value (Dollars) Private Cost (Dollars) External Cost (Dollars) 1 46 21 6 2 44 24 6 3 42 27 6 4 40 30 6 5 38 33 6 6 36 36 6 7 34 39 6 ​ ​Refer to Table 10-4. The table represents a market in which

Figure 22-13 ​Refer to Figure 22-13. When the price of X is $80, the price of Y is $20, and the consumer’s income is $160, the consumer’s optimal choice is D. Then the price of X decreases to $20. The income effect can be illustrated as the movement from

Figure 22-1 ​Refer to Figure 22-1. A consumer who chooses to spend all of her income could be at which point(s) on the figure?

Table 16-2 Suppose a monopolist faces the following demand curve:​ Price(Dollars per unit) Quantity(Units) 8 300 7 400 6 500 5 600 4 700 3 800 2 900 1 1,000 ​ ​Refer to Table 16-2. The monopolist has fixed costs of $1,000 and has a constant marginal cost of $2 per unit. If the monopolist were able to perfectly price discriminate, how many units would it sell?

Figure 22-11 ​Refer to Figure 22-11. Assume that the consumer depicted in the figure has an income of $20. The price of Skittles is $2 and the price of M&M’s is $4. The consumer’s optimal choice is point

The letters x and y represent rectangular coordinates. Write the equation using polar coordinates (r, θ).xy = 1

Write the vector v in the form ai + bj, given its magnitude and the angle α it makes with the positive x-axis. = 15, α = 30°