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housands of Job Seekers Brave Heat to Get Amazon Jobs

$3$altimore, MD$.$ The line started forming at $4$ a$.$m$.$ By $8$ a$.$m$.$ there were over $3,000$ people in the line naking around Amazon's fulfillment center. Despite $85-$degree heat and equally high humidity, these reople were willing to stand in line for hours, just for a chance to land a job at Amazon's local fulfillment enter. By the end of the day, over $4,500$ job$-$seekers had applied for the $1,200$ jobs Amazon had posted, vhich pay wages of around $$14$ an hour. Amazon held similar job fairs in $11$ other cities around the nation, romising to hire as many as $50,000$ new employees.

iource: News accounts of August $2-4,2017.$

I. What was the apparent market surplus at the Amazon job fair? people

If Amazon increased wages to $$16\mathrm{.}50$ per hour, what do you predict will happen to that market surplus?

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