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  Marginal revenue is  

  A dentist who lets a child take home a toy after a successful visit is providing a(n) ________ incentive.  

  Which of the following is a normative statement?  

  What is an example of a direct negative incentive to buckle up when driving?  

  ________ show(s) how goods, resources, and services flow through the economy.  

Image 1 best illustrates which of the following broad economic transformations in the period circa 1750 ?

  The three primary factors of production are  

PERCENTAGES OF WORKERS EMPLOYED IN TEXTILE FACTORIES IN ENGLAND BY AGE AND GENDER, 1835–1867 Year Children (8–12 years) Women (13 years and over) Men (13 years and over) 1835 15.9 47.3 37.7 1838 7.9 54.0 38.1 1847 7.9 54.9 37.2 1850 6.8 55.3 37.7 1856 7.7 56.2 36.1 1861 9.0 55.8 35.2 1867 10.0 56.1 33.8 Source: Data adapted from Clark Nardinelli, “Child Labor and the Factory Acts,” The Journal of Economic History, 40:4 (1980): 744. The data were compiled by British government inspectors who reported their findings to the British Parliament. The data in the table best provide historical context to understand which of the following developments in mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain?

Refer to the following graph for the next five questions.   The opportunity cost of increasing production of consumption from 10 to 15 is ________.  

“Liberty and justice consist of restoring all that belongs to others; thus, the only limits on the exercise of the natural rights of woman are perpetual male tyranny; these limits are to be reformed by the laws of nature and reason.” Olympe de Gouges, French feminist, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 The passage above is an example of which of the following processes occurring in the eighteenth century?