The following transactions take place in 2000:
1. An elderly couple go to the movies and pay $150
for the tickets.
2. A family sells numerous knick-knacks at a garage sale for $125
.
3. A young executive buys 100 shares of IBM for $10 comma 000
.
4. A college student receives $800
from his parents.
5. A young couple down on their luck receive food stamps worth $230
.
6. A plumber performs work for a neighbor and receives $125
in cash that he doesn't record in his company's records.
7. A physician operates on a friend's husband and charges $2 comma 000
for the operation instead of her usual $5 comma 000
.
8. A teenager paints the porch on his parents' house. The paint cost $95
.
The cost of hiring a professional to do the job would have been $400
.
9. A high school graduate works a summer job and makes $7 comma 000
.
10. The Federal Reserve Bank sells a bond for $2 comma 000
.
The addition to gross domestic product is
Part 2
A.
$17 comma 645
.
B.
$25 comma 525
.
C.
$9 comma 245
.
D.
$13 comma 525
.
5 answers
Explanation: To calculate the addition to gross domestic product, we need to add up the values of all the transactions that represent the production of goods and services in the economy. In this case, transactions 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 represent such production, while transactions 4 and 6 do not.
So, the sum of the values of these transactions is:
$150 + $125 + $10,000 + $230 + $2,000 + $95 + $7,000 + $2,000 = $17,645
Thus, the correct answer is A.
Explanation: To calculate the addition to gross domestic product, we need to add up the values of all the transactions that represent the production of goods and services in the economy. In this case, transactions 1 and 5 do not represent the production of goods and services, since they are merely transfers of money. Transactions 4 and 6 are also excluded since they do not represent legal, recorded economic activity.
So, the sum of the values of these transactions is:
$125 + $10,000 + $2,000 + $95 + $7,000 + $2,000 = $9,245
Therefore, the correct answer is C.