Applied Economics 2122 1
Applied Economics 2122 1
Applied Economics 2122 1
What is the study of economic behavior and decision making of small units, such as
individuals, families, and businesses called?
A condition where there are insufficient resources to satisfy needs and wants of a
population.
A field that applies of economic theories and principles to real-world situations with the
desired aim of predicting potential outcomes.
Select one:
a. Economic Theory
b. Applied Economics
c. Economics
The correct answer is: Applied Economics
A field that applies of economic theories and principles to real-world situations with the
desired aim of predicting potential outcomes.
Select one:
a. Macroeconomics
b. Applied Economics
c. Social Science
Select one:
a. Consumer
b. Producer
c. Firm
d. Household
What can happen in a planned economy that does not happen in a market economy?
Select one:
a. There can be international trade.
b. There can be full employment of factors of production.
c. There can be inflation.
d. The allocation of resources can take account of the total effects on society.
The correct answer is: The allocation of resources can take account of the total effects on
society.
Select one:
a. The profit declared by a company in its annual report
b. The taxes paid to the government
c. The payment of interest on a bank loan
d. The skill of the managers of a business
.
The correct answer is: The skill of the managers of a business
Select one:
a. Horizontal
b. Vertical
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The Law of Supply states:
Select one:
a. as prices decrease, supply increases
b. as price decreases, quantity demanded decreases
c. as price increases, supply increases
d. as price increases, quantity demanded decreases
Select one:
a. Up
b. Down
Select one:
a. Desire
b. Surplus
c. Ability
d. Willingness
Select one:
a. Ability
b. Desire
c. Surplus
d. Willingness
Answer:
Equilibrium
Select one:
a. Where price equals supply
b. Where markets for goods equal markets for services
c. Where market supply equals market demand
d. Where price equals demand
The correct answer is: Where market supply equals market demand
A table showing how much of a good or service consumers will want to buy at different
prices
shortages occur when the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied. When the
market price is held below the equilibrium price.
Select one:
a. Substitute
b. Shortage
c. Demand Schedule
d. Normal Goods
The actual amount of a good or service people are willing to sell at some specific price.
Select one:
a. Quantity Supplied
b. Positive Economics
c. Supply Schedule
d. Demand Schedule
It is the measure of how much buyers and sellers respond to changes in market conditions.
Answer:
cross-price elasticity
The correct answer is: Elasticity
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If you slow down buying because of a price increase, your demand is
Select one:
a. Normal
b. Elastic
c. Strong
d. Inelastic
The correct answer is: Elastic
Select one:
a. The demand for that product will tend to be price inelastic.
b. The demand for that product will tend to be price elastic.
c. You will wait for a sale before you buy the item.
d. You will stop buying it if the prices rises even a little.
.
The correct answer is: The demand for that product will tend to be price inelastic.
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When the percentage change in the price exceeds the percentage change in quantity
demanded, then demand is
Select one:
a.
Irrelevant
Irrelevant.
Irrelevant.
b. Elastic.
c.
Inelastic.
d. Unitary elastic.
The correct answer is:
Inelastic.
Select one:
a. Laptop Computers
b. HD Flat Panel TV Sets
c. Life-Saving Medicine
d. Fresh Lobster
Feedback.
The correct answer is: Life-Saving Medicine
Select one:
a. None of this
b. Inelastic
c. Elastic
d. Unitary
The correct answer is: Elastic
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Mercedes makes a luxury car called the Maybach which sells for approximately $490,000.
base price. One would expect the demand for this product to be...
Select one:
a. Elastic
b. Inelastic
c. None of this
d. Unitary
The correct answer is: Elastic
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If billionaire Bill Gates decides he has to have a Maybach, for him it has demand that
Select one:
a. Inelastic
b. None of This
c. Elastic
d. Unitary.
The correct answer is: Inelastic
Select one:
a.
The amount of profit a company makes after paying taxes.
The amount of profit a company makes after paying taxes.
The amount of profit a company makes after paying taxes.
The amount of profit a company makes after paying taxes.
The amount of profit a company makes after paying taxes.
The correct answer is: The total amount of money a company takes in for selling its goods
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A graph that shows a product with elastic demand will tend to be...
Select one:
a. Backward bending.
b. More straight up and down.
c. Finding equilibrium faster.
d. Flatter
Flatter.
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The main difference between Oligopoly and duopoly is
Select one:
a. No. of Firms
b. Strong Bariers
c. Similar Products
Similar Products
d. Imperfect Knowledge
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Given the type of business or industry below, identify what kind of market structure it
belongs to.
Ice Cream in the Philippines.
Select one:
a. Monopoly
b. Oligopoly
c. Perfect Competition
d. Monopolistic Competition
.
The correct answer is: Oligopoly
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What type of business consists of two or more people?
Select one:
a. Sole Proprietorship
b. Corporation
c. Franchise
d. Partnership
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What kind of business is BEST described by these statements?
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A form of business organization that is authorized to act as a legal entity regardless of the
number of owners.
Select one:
a. Corporation
b. Proprietorship
c. Partnership
The correct answer is: Corporation
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A person who takes a risk to produce goods and services in search of profit
Select one:
a. Entrepreneur
b. Profiteer
c. Baliff
d. Magistrate
The correct answer is: Entrepreneur
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Economic policies for determining the amount of money supply, rates of interest &
exchange rates → Monetary Policy
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'True'.
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A Latin phrase that means while certain variables change, "all other things remain
unchanged."
Select one:
a. Entrepreneurship
b. Ceteris Paribus
c. Microeconomics
d. Microeconomics
.
The correct answer is: Ceteris Paribus
Supply curve that shows the quantities offered at various prices BY ALL FIRMS that sell
product in a given market. → Cost of Production
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'False'.
Law of supply: suppliers will offer more for sale at _____ prices and less for sale at _____
prices.
Select one:
a. Demand Curve
b. Supply Curve
c. high, low
d. down, up.
The correct answer is: high, low
Measure of the way in which the quantity supplied responds to a change in price. →
Elasticity of Demand
The mental and physical capacity of workers to produce goods and services
Principle that more will be offered for sale at higher and prices and less at lower prices. →
Law of Supply
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'True'.
The branch of economics that studies decision making for the economy as a whole →
Microeconomics
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'False'.
Select one:
a. Cooperative
b. Partnership
c. Sole Proprietorship
d. Corporation
.
The correct answer is: Sole Proprietorship
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The branch of economics that studies, decision making by a single individual, household,
firm, industry, or level of government → Macroeconomics
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'False'.
The main difference between Oligopoly and duopoly is
Select one:
a. No. of Firms
b. Similar Products
c. Strong Bariers
d. Imperfect Knowledge
The correct answer is: No. of Firms
The condition in which human wants are forever greater than the available supply of time,
goods, and resources.
The correct answer is: Scarcity
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What type of business structure is owned by many people?
Select one:
a. Sole Proprietorship
b. Partnership
c. Corporation
Select one:
a. Profiteer
b. Baliff
c. Entrepreneur
d. Magistrate.
The correct answer is: Entrepreneur
Human-made goods that are used to produce other goods and services
Answer:
The correct answer is: Capital
In a Market structure called 'Monopoly' there will:
Select one:
a. Many Firms
b. Two Firms
c. One Firm
d. Few Firms
The correct answer is: One Firm
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List the four market structures in order from least competitive to most competitive.
Select one:
a. Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Perfect Competition
b. Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Perfect Competition, Oligopoly
c. Perfect Competition, Oligopoly, Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition
d. Oligopoly, Monopoly, Perfect Competition, Monopolistic Competition
The correct answer is: Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Perfect Competition
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The study of how society chooses to allocate its scarce resources to the production of
goods and services in order ot satisfy unlimited wants → Microeconomics
Select one:
True
False
The correct answer is 'False'.
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Provides a means to clearly show economic relationships in two-dimensional space.
Economic analysis is often concerned with two variables confined to the upper-right
(northeast) quadrant of the coordinate number system.
Answer:
The correct answer is: Graphs
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Amount of money, resources, raw materials, labor, and production it takes to make a good,
item, or service.
Select one:
a. Quantity Demanded
b. Inelastic
c. Cost of Production
d. Elastic
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What is the study of economic behavior and decision makings of small units, such as
individuals, families, and businesses called?
Select one:
a. Macroeconomics
b. Economic Statistics
c. Microeconomics
d. Economics
A form of business organization that is authorized to act as a legal entity regardless of the
number of owners.
Select one:
a. Partnership
b. Corporation
c. Distributor
d. Proprietorship
.
The correct answer is: Land, capital, labor, entrepreneurs
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The creative ability of individuals to seek profits by taking risk and combining resources to
produce innovative products.
Answer:
Any natural resource provided by nature that is used to produce goods and services
Answer:
An analysis based on value judgments or opinions and use words such as good, bad, ought
to, and should.
Select one:
a. Normative Economics
b. Direct Relationship
c. Positive Economics
d. Entrepreneurship
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What is a payment made by an employer to an employee?
Select one:
a. Interest
b. Profit
c. Marginal
d. Wage
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Graph showing the quantities supplied at each and every possible price in the marker.
Select one:
a. Variabale Costs
b. Supply Curve
c. Demand Schedule
d. Supply Schedule
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The correct answer is: Supply Curve
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Combination of desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product. → Demand
Select one:
True
False
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Variable plus fixed costs, all costs associated with production.
Answer:
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Demand: shift left=______ in demand.
Select one:
a. Demand
b. Shortagae
c. Inverse Relationship
d. Decrease
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What is it called when you have limited quantities of resources used to meet unlimited
wants?
Select one:
a. Specialization
b. Scarcity
c. Profit
d. Cartel
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Listing showing the quantity demanded at all possible prices that might prevail in the
market at any given time.
Answer:
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The correct answer is: Demand Schedule
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Lowest legal price that can be paid for a good or service.
Select one:
a. Fixed Costs
b. Market Economy
c. Price Floor
d. Total Costs
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The correct answer is: Price Floor
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Changes in price cause a SMALL change in quantity demanded. -INELASTIC DEMAND
Select one:
True
False
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What type of business consists of two or more people?
Select one:
a. Franchise
b. Sole Proprietorship
c. Corporation
d. Partnership
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The correct answer is: Partnership
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Porter’s five forces is an industry analysis model. The five forces are: inter rivalry of
competitors, bargaining power of customers, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new
entrants and what?
Select one:
a. Barriers to Entry
b. Threat of Substitutes
c. Bargaining Power of Consumers
d. Threats of Competitors
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A SWOT analysis is used to analyse an organisation’s current Answer
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In a SWOT analysis, Answer
are external environmental trends that may be advantageous for the organisation in
question.
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The correct answer is: Opportunities
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In a SWOT analysis, strengths and weaknesses are external factors.
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True
False
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In a SWOT analysis, which two elements are part of the internal environment?
Select one:
a. Strengths and Opportunities
b. Weaknesses and Strengths
c. Strengths and Threats
d. Opportunities and Threats
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The correct answer is: Weaknesses and Strengths
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These are goods that can be used in place of another.
Answer:
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The correct answer is: Substitutes
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The one who will distribute the products.
Select one:
a. Customers
b. Suppliers
c. Competition
d. Substitutes
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An evaluation of the possible or probable effects of external forces and conditions on the
survival and growth of the business.
Answer:
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The correct answer is: Environmental Analysis
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Who will you sell your product to?
Select one:
a. Customers
b. Competition
c. Substitutes
d. Suppliers
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The correct answer is: Customers
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A business function completed by business owners and other individuals to assess the
current business environment.
Answer:
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The correct answer is: Industry Analysis
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The type of government, the stability and strength of the government, and good leadership
are factors that can be advantage to a business.
Select one:
a. Economic Forces
b. Culture and Lifestyles
c. Political Factors
d. Physical Environment
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The correct answer is: Political Factors
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The study of cultural practices to identify the goods and services that will fit into
celebrations and spending behavior.
Select one:
a. Cultures and Lifestyles
b. Physical Environment
c. Political Factors
d. Economic Forces
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Who are the major businesses in the industry?
Select one:
a. Suppliers
b. Customers
c. Substitutes
d. Competition
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The correct answer is: Competition
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This involves a look at economic factors such as income of the people, specifically the target
market, economic conditions such as inflation, recession, prosperity, demand, and supply in
the market.
Select one:
a. Political Factors
b. Cultures and Lifestyles
c. Competitions
d. Economic Forces
e. Physical Environment
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This includes a look at the population size, the geography of the place where business will
be located, land distribution, climate, and in today's global warming situation, whether or
not the area is prone to flood or earthquake.
Select one:
a. Cultures and Lifestyles
b. Economic Forces
c. Political Factors
d. Physical Environment
e. Competition
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The correct answer is: Physical Environment
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Which of the following is part of the circular flow diagram?
Select one:
a. Family
b. Education
c. Cooperations
Cooperations
d. Resources
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What are the firms responsible putting out into the market?
Select one:
a. Resources
b. Goods and Services
c. Household Spending
d. Agriculture
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Which of the following is attached to households on the circular flow diagram?
Select one:
a. Cooperations
b. Goods and Services
c. Farming
d. Stock Market
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Circular flow only moves in one direction, with little to no leakages in the market.
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True
False
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The circular flow of a market economy also assumes that consumers spend all their money
on goods, services, and consumption. This means that there is no _________ on the part of
the consumer.
Select one:
a. Investing
b. Managing
c. Borrowing
d. Saving
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Enterprise refers to the human creativity and initiative required to pull together the three
other factors of production and start a business to provide goods and services. It is the
combination of the other three factors of production to make a profit. → Enterprise
Select one:
True
False
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Service industries do not manufacture physical products but provide services to other
businesses and consumers. E.g. advertising, telecommunications, tourism, music, legal
services. → Service industries
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True
False
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An industry is a group of businesses engaged in producing similar goods and services, such
as the tourism, computing and fashion design industries. Industries can be grouped into
three basic sectors of the economy:
- The primary sector
- The secondary sector
- The tertiary sector → Industry
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True
False
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Globalization of services: Future growth for Irish service-based industries lies in developing
more international markets for their services. This is already happening in
telecommunications, financial services, software development and advertising and is being
made possible through the use of ICT such as the internet.
- Information and communications technology (ICT) is changing what and how services are
provided. People can buy goods, take out loans and look for information or place orders
using the Internet or telephone. Many businesses have realised that it is cheaper to have
people working from the end of a telephone line in an out-of-the-way location than in
expensive, high rent offices in the centre of a town or city. → Trends and challenges facing
the secondary sector
Select one:
True
False
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Economic fluctuations: The construction industry is very sensitive to the general level of
economic activity in the economy. When the economy is doing well, construction does well
but when the economy is doing poorly, construction activity and employment can drop
dramatically.
- Employment in manufacturing is declining but output is increasing (i.e. more output is
being produced by fewer people). This is due to increasing productivity arising from the use
of new technologies such as automation, robotics and ICT.
- High labour and other costs have made Irish firms less competitive compared to many
competitors in countries with lower costs.
- Relocation of operations: Declining employment in the secondary sector is being caused
by firms relocating their manufacturing operations to lower cost countries and to be nearer
expanding foreign markets. → Trends and challenges facing the secondary sector
Select one:
True
False
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To maximize utility, a consumer with a fixed budget will purchase quantities of goods so
that the ratios of the marginal utility of each good to its.
Select one:
a. Price are equal
b. Price are the greatest
c. Price are equal to one
d. Total utility are the greatest
e. Total utility are the same
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Describes how consumers make decisions on what to buy Consumption refers to the use of
goods and services to satisfy human wants directly.
Answer:
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It refers to the additional utility derived from consuming an additional unit of the good
Answer:
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The total satisfaction received from consuming a given total quantity of a good or service,
while marginal utility is the satisfaction gained from consuming an additional quantity of a
particular good or service.
Answer:
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When total utility is at its maximum, marginal utility is...
Select one:
a. At a maximum marginal utility
b. Increasing
c. Negative
d. At a minimum marginal utility
e. Equal to zero
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Which cost increases continuously with the increase in production?
Select one:
a. Fixed cost.
b. Variable cost.
c. Marginal Cost
Marginal cost.
d. Average cost.
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Output refers to the product created as a result of the combination of input in the
production process.
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True
False
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Input refers to the resources used to produce goods and services.
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True
False
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The use of economic resources to create goods and services that will be used to satisfy
human wants.
Answer:
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External economies go with size and internal economies with location.
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True
False
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