Lol, I thought "answer for their performance" means they'll be dismissed. I know I and many others have been told by our teachers, higher-ups, and parents that we'll have to "answer for our behavior", which often ended up in some kind of penalty. Even our politicians and courtroom judges use it as a threat.

In real life, it is rarely the case that the local economy is separate from the businesses inside of it, especially not new ones. Of course, there are particularly nasty examples that serve as a critique of capitalism & poor city planning. 

However, we need to drop our outside assumptions in order to answer this question, or at least be mindful that we hold these assumptions, many of which are true outside of the scope of the exam. 

A potential real-world example of this is data centers. Building & running data centers has little to no positive impact for the local community's economy, but the economic activity of said data centers is massive and the corporations running them reap the benefits. The local economy's GDP artificially "increases" by forcing taxpayers to subsidize these data centers, but the increase in negligible and inevitably is smaller than the gains the corporations receive.

@colesalton939 Exact same issue here lmao

@cbrianne1570 i agree. this is why im moving on and gonna do a practice problem using sequential

@ZenZigzagMenu this was my exact issue right here, ty!

I just steamrolled through this section and then I spent 10 minutes on this thinking it's a 5-star.