If 2008 is the base year and the price index in 2009 is 109,prices in 2009 are _____ than prices in 2008.

A) 1 percent higher
B) 8 percent higher
C) 9 percent higher
D) 0.9 percent higher
E) 12 percent higher

The dividend yield ratio is calculated as dividends per share divided by the number of shares outstanding.

An investor is entitled to bring a civil suit to recover his or her losses if the investor purchased securities and suffered damages as a result of an issuer's false or misleading statement.

At organizations where decision-making is shared between and across levels,the organization's design is said to be:

A) an M-Form
B) mechanistic
C) impersonal
D) decentralized

The total cost of extracting and selling a resource in a given year is the sum of the extraction cost and user cost.

The greater the number of different goods available in an economy,the:

A) less likely it is that a double coincidence of wants will exist,and the less likely it is that monetary exchange will develop.
B) less likely it is that a double coincidence of wants will exist,and the more likely it is that monetary exchange will develop.
C) more likely it is that a double coincidence of wants will exist,and the less likely it is that monetary exchange will develop.
D) more likely it is that a double coincidence of wants will exist,and the more likely it is that monetary exchange will develop.
E) more likely it is that individuals are producing only goods they want to consume.