Scenario # 6 Venezuela -Venezuela is the most northerly nation of South America. It has a long Caribbean and Atlantic coast on the north and east. Neighbors include Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana. Venezuela’s economy is dominated by petroleum products that represent about 95% of the country’s exports. The petroleum industry is entirely government owned. The country’s main trading partners are the United States, Germany, and Japan. Petroven, a Venezuelan government owned corporation, might decide to reduce the production of oil from 2 million barrels per day to 1.5 million barrels per day. In order to make up for the loss of oil revenue, Petroven might raise the price of the oil by 50%. What economic system would allow the government to make decisions like this?

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Suppose matt and bree go out to get pizza. they order breadsticks and a large pepperoni pizza. after eating the breadsticks, and one piece of pizza bree decides to have an additional piece, but she does not eat a third piece. if bree is a rational individual why did she not eat the third piece of pizza? the marginal cost of the

< back to assignment attempts: 1 1 keep the highest: 1 / 2 2. determining opportunity cost juanita is deciding whether to buy a suit that she wants, as well as where to buy it. three stores carry the same suit, but it is more convenient for juanita to get to some stores than others. for example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $102 for the suit: store travel time each way price of a suit (minutes) (dollars per suit) local department store 15 102 across town 30 88 neighboring city 60 65 juanita makes $42 an hour at work. she has to take time off work to purchase her suit, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. assume that returning to work takes juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. as you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling. complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location. store opportunity cost of time price of a suit total cost (dollars) (dollars per suit) (dollars) local department store 102 across town 88 neighboring city 65 assume that juanita takes opportunity costs and the price of the suit into consideration when she shops. juanita will minimize the cost of the suit if she buys it from the . grade it now save & continue continue without saving