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A restaurant manager keeps adding servers, and each additional server still increases total meals served but by ever-smaller amounts. Diminishing marginal returns begin when
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The price of gasoline rises 10% and the quantity demanded falls 5%. What happens to total revenue?
Not quite. The answer is B.
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Question 13 / 4 pts
Part a1 / 1 pts
Point 1: Earned
Grader confidence 94% sureReason: Correctly identifies demand for gasoline as inelastic.
Evidence: "The price of gasoline rises and the quantity falls only a little."
Part b2 / 3 pts
Point 1: Earned
Grader confidence 91% sureReason: Graph shows relatively inelastic demand.
Evidence: Draws a steep demand curve.
Point 2: Earned
Grader confidence 88% sureReason: Correct new equilibrium price.
Evidence: Shifts supply left, P1 → P2.
Point 3: Not earned
Grader confidence 82% sureReason: With inelastic demand, a price increase raises total revenue.
Evidence: "Revenue goes down."