14. Comparative advantage is the ability of a country, firm or individual to produce a good or service at a opportunity cost than other producers. A. More specialized B. Less specialized C. Higher D. Lower ( 3 points )

If you offer up your car as a demonstration that you will pay off your loan to a bank or another financial lending institution, you are using your car as collateral. true false

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

Why is efficiency an important economic goal?