Identify an example of how individualistic conservatism manifests in Texas political culture today.

A. The political culture in Texas includes imagery of challenging authority as can be seen in the popularity of the Confederate Flag that celebrates those who went to war with the Federal Government in 1861.
The political ideology in Texas is inclined toward government help for individuals and businesses as can be seen in the popularity of the government loans that were given to businesses during the Great Recession to prevent them from bankruptcy
Texans believe that private capital and entrepreneurs should provide for all goods and services, including national defense and law enforcement
OD. Texans believe that public investments for the common good should be the responsibility of the federal government, not the local governing bodies.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Laws corporation is considering the purchase of a machine costing $16,000. estimated cash savings from using the new machine are $4,120 per year. the machine will have no salvage value at the end of its useful life of six years and the required rate of return for laws corporation is 12%. the machine's internal rate of return is closest to (ignore income taxes) (a) 12% (b) 14% (c) 16% (d) 18%

The face of a company is often that of the lowest paid employees who meet the customers. select one: true false