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I think you're just reading an ambiguous sentence in a way that obviously wouldn't make sense in context. The question is in a very familiar form: describe a sc

I think you're just reading an ambiguous sentence in a way that obviously wouldn't make sense in context. The question is in a very familiar form: describe a scenario with some assumptions, describe a peturbation, ask what impact the peturbation has. If the context was some annoying internet quiz, the answer might have been a gotcha that the number of people in the queue stay the same.... but this is an econ question it's going to involve how people respond to economic incentives.

hgsgm 4y ago
This is like those LeetCode questions in job interviews, or the interviewer wants a complicated O(n) solution when the problem as stated would be better solved with a simple O(n^2) solution because the maximum problem size is tiny. It's a mind-reading game of which assumptions the professor/interviewer wants to keep solid which ones are open to change.