A. general electric uses $10 million worth of glass, steel, and plastic to produce dishwashers. wages and salaries in the dishwasher division are $40 million; the division's only other expense is $15 million in interest that it pays on its bonds. the division's revenue for the year is $75 million. (hint: you can use either of our two methods to calculate this, one is easy, the other is more difficult)

Expenditure Method, GDP is the value of the final good sold in the market. So, GDP will rise by $75 million.

Using the Factor payments approach,

Wages and salaries and interest paid by

Adding GE's profit and its factor payments we get,

Thus, GDP by both the methods is $75 million.

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

4 i really dont know