The interpretation of this relationship between price and quantity demanded of a given good assumes that, given all the other goods and constraints, the set of choices which emerges is that one which makes the consumer happiest.

The most common choices are mercury ( Hg ) and water ; water is nontoxic and readily available, while mercury's density allows for a shorter column ( and so a smaller manometer ) to measure a given pressure.

And, given the ability for the right brand choices to drive preference and earn a price premium, the future success of a merger or acquisition depends on making wise brand choices.

Students are given a variety of class choices to fulfill the seminar requirement, and to satisfy the first-year writing requirement.

These agreements frequently regard administrative policy choices germane to executive power ; for example, the extent to which either country presents an armed presence in a given area, how each country will enforce copyright treaties, or how each country will process foreign mail.

Since then, Languedoc has built exclusively for the two, and his designs and traditional wood choices have given Phish a unique instrumental identity.

A customer is given a menu of choices for electricity tailored to his or her needs, such as evenings only, daytime only, 24 hour-supply or charge per lightbulb.

Consumers will be willing to buy a given quantity of a good, at a given price, if the marginal utility of additional consumption is equal to the opportunity cost determined by the price, that is, the marginal utility of alternative consumption choices.

Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the choices of plants regarding speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the plants, whether annual or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other characteristics.

Polish writers typically have had a more profound range of choices to motivate them to write including historical cataclysms of extraordinary violence that swept Poland, as the crossroads of Europe ; but also, Polish own collective incongruities demanding adequate reaction from the writing communities of any given period.

The problem of free will is especially salient now with Logical Determinism: how can choices be free, given that propositions about the future already have a truth value in the present ( i. e. it is already determined as either true or false )?

The virile father of the abolitionist serial and first book edition degenerated into a decrepit old man, and with that transformation the character lost the capacity for resistance that had originally given meaning to his choices.

The inhabitants of the province were given two choices: the choice to join either Pakistan or India.

CA Certs are loaded into the browser statically, and the user is given further choices to import, delete, or develop an individual trust relationship with the loaded Certificate Authorities and determine how the browser will behave if OCSP revocation servers are unreachable.

In this case, traditional aperiodic tilings would show their very regular structure ; much less constrained sets that guarantee at least two tile choices for any two given side colors are common because tileability is easily ensured and each tile can be selected pseudorandomly.

In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W. Bush ’ s top choices to be Defense Secretary, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served as United States Secretary of Defense.

They were given two choices, that they could be born about 7 ( Seven ) times as normal mortals and devotees of Vishnu, or 3 times as powerful and strong people, but as enemies of Vishnu, for which they chose the latter one.

The specific nature of the system, and so the complexity class of languages it can recognize, depends on what sort of bounds are put on the verifier, as well as what abilities it is given — for example, most interactive proof systems depend critically on the verifier's ability to make random choices.

Mathematical logic showed that fundamental choices of axioms were essential in deductive reasoning and that, even having chosen axioms not everything that was true in a given logical system could be proven.

Now New Line Cinema had given Van Sant the green light, he was on a mission to get the Idaho script to his first choices for his two young leads.

) Discrete variables referring to more than two possible choices are typically coded using dummy variables ( or indicator variables ), i. e. separate explanatory variables taking the value 0 or 1 are created for each possible value of the discrete variable, with a 1 meaning " variable does have the given value " and a 0 meaning " variable does not have the given value ".

Georgia Tech was one of three schools the 6 ' 4 " shooting guard had narrowed his choices down to, along with Miami and Florida State.

For the second count, if a candidate wins election her / his surplus vote ( in excess of the quota ) is transferred to the voters ' second choices ; otherwise, the least popular candidate is eliminated and those votes are redistributed according to the second preference shown on them.

Suppose that voters each decided to grant from 0 to 10 points to each city such that their most liked choice got 10 points, and least liked choice got 0 points, with the intermediate choices getting an amount proportional to their relative distance.

Runoff advocates counter that voters first preference is more important than lower preferences because that's where voters are putting the most effort of decision and that, unlike Condorcet methods, runoffs require a high showing among the full field of choices in addition to a strong showing in the final head-to-head competition.

For the presidential election, Mobutu was the only candidate, and voters were offered two ballot choices: green for hope, and red for chaos: Mobutu won with a vote of 10, 131, 699 to 157.

While sportswriter voters of other major sports ' Halls of Fame openly debate their choices, the Naismith Hall does not make the process transparent.

Social Credit was the main beneficiary of the new voting system as many non-CCF voters chose Social Credit as either their first or second choices.

In instant-runoff voting, voters rank their choices.

True disapproval voting would require more than two choices or representatives, and would ask voters to disavow one or more.

This suggests that voters ' interest in political information increases with the importance of political choices.

Proponents of more open ballot access argue that restricting access to the ballot has the effect of unjustly restricting the choices available to the voters and typically disadvantages third party candidates and other candidates who are not affiliated with the established parties.

The voting process uses printed voting ballots, with voters marking their choices ( one vote for a candidate and one vote for a party – see Electoral system of New Zealand ) with an ink pen provided for their use.

In some nonpartisan elections, it is common knowledge which candidates are members of and backed by which parties ; in others, parties are almost wholly uninvolved and voters make choices with little or no regard to partisan considerations.

The party will use a preferential ballot on which voters rank their choices.

The referendum gave voters only two choices, one for each dam proposal.

In the past few decades, the internet has become increasingly important to the decisions made by adult voters: between 1996 and 2002, the number of adults who reported that the internet was significant in their choices increased from about 14 to 20 percent.

" All the World is Mad ", " The Weight ", " Circles " and " In Exile " were the choices for the poll, with " In Exile " narrowly beating " The Weight " even after some voters hacked into the system to try to choose the winner.

For multi-member districts, voters marked as many first choices as there are seats to be filled.

1 ) Video of voter behavior during an actual election revealed that most voters do not " verify " their choices by reading the VVPAT.

A voice over the graphics said " New York voters face real choices in this year's Senate election.

For example, binary data is often used to represent the party choices of voters in elections in the United States, i. e. Republican or Democratic.

: It has been alleged that Italian parties have retained too much power in the First Republic, screening the choices citizens had in elections ; this electoral law would maintain fixed electoral lists, where voters can only express a preference for a list but not for a specific candidate.

It has been alleged that Italian parties have retained too much power in the First Republic, screening the choices citizens had in elections ; this electoral law would reinstate fixed electoral lists, where voters can express a preference for a list but not for a specific candidate.

" This typically leads to higher levels of confidence within voters choices and can widen the degree of participation in the electoral process.