2006, Question 3 · 6 points
Land converted to housing
Redraw a supply and demand graph for land to show the effect of higher income and of smaller farm subsidies. Then compare social and private costs when lost open space harms the public and judge whether the market quantity is efficient.
This exam had three free-response questions with 10 minutes of planning and 50 minutes of writing, and the directions suggested spending about half the time on Question 1 and splitting the rest evenly between Questions 2 and 3. The current exam has 3 free-response questions in 60 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
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