The government catches a firm in the act of polluting. What will happen to the company's profits? Learners consider the question and others using authentic College Board materials. Other problem sets examine wages and labor and price equilibrium.

Concepts

microeconomics, prices, equilibrium prices, competition, pollution, government regulation, labor, wages, test preparation, profit

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use all or part of the resource for an exam review
• Create a class competition to solve problems in teams to reinforce content instruction

Classroom Considerations

• Form B questions from the 2002 AP® microeconomics exam

Pros

• Questions are easy to adapt to a variety of lessons
• Scoring guidelines simplify feedback

Cons

• Teacher may need to account for exam revisions due to the age of the items

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10