QUESTION 26 Which one of the following states a central element of the economic way of thinking? a. Incentives matter--human choice is influenced in predictable ways by changes in personal costs and benefits. b. When deciding how to allocate time, the concept of opportunity cost is meaningless. c. The realism of the assumptions is the best test of an economic theory. d. Scarce goods are priceless.

(b) A dealer purchased some goods marked at ₹ 2,000 at a discount of \( 20 \% \) and \( 5 \% \). He sells the same at a discount of \( 15 \% \) and \( 5 \% \). Find the amount of gain or loss to him.

I would arrange what I said earlier, I would purchase a budgetting book and every paycheck I would put to the side until I re need to open that budgetting book. I would use green for food, i would use red for shopping. I would use pink for rent and I would orange for other neccessitie that I would want to have. The most expenses I would use would probably be food and rent because those are the most important.

Suppose you want to have \( \$ 700,000 \) for retirement in 25 years. Your account earns \( 4 \% \) interest. a) How much would you need to deposit in the account each month? b) How much interest will you earn?

Find the final hourly wage if a \( \$ 9.00 \) starting wage is increased by \( 4.5 \% \) each year for 8 years.

"In addition, she said banks operating in Africa need to have a more end-to-end approach to risk management, considering bankability at all stages." As a followe up to Question 1 above and in addition to the solutions recommended in the anticle, recornmend how Southern African financial institutions can improve their risk management strategy.