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Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consumer | Someone who buys goods or services |
| goods | products you can touch |
| profit | money after expenses are paid |
| Profit formula | sales money-expenses |
| businesses provide | goods and services that people value |
| competition leads to | better products, choices, ideas, and prices |
| economics | the study of how people make choices when people have unlimited wants and needs but limited resources |
| economic activity | producing, selling, buying, or exchanging goods and services |
| needs | something people must have to live or function |
| wants | things people would like to have but can live without |
| resources | things people and businesses use to meet wants and needs |
| money | funds used to buy what is needed |
| labor | the work people do |
| material | supplies and items used to make products |
| unlimited wants | people can think of almost endless things they want or need |
| limited resources | No person, business, or country has enough resources to get everything it wants |
| scarcity | resources are limited compared with people's wants or needs |
| simple rule | take care of needs first; then use resources left over for wants |
| life skill | making smart choices with limited resources is an important business or life skill |