Supply and Demand

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This part of the market determines DEMAND

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buyers

Front

This part of the market determines SUPPLY

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sellers

Front

For the law of demand, as price rises, what happens to quantity demanded?

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it goes down

Front

When quantity supplied and quantity demanded is equal

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equilibrium

Front

What does this curve represent?

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demand

Front

Thousands of people leave a small town due to a factory closing down. Sales at the local grocery store become slow. What causes this change? Options: Prices or availability of substitutes, Prices or availability of complementary goods, Change in the weather or season, Change in the number of buyers

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Change in the number of buyers

Front

Which of the following is likely to increase the demand for peanut butter? Options: Fewer children in the population, News that insects have destroyed much of the peanut crop and that there will be less peanut butter on the shelves in three months., A big increase in the price of jelly., A report from the Surgeon General of the United States that eating peanut butter makes people nutty.

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News that insects have destroyed much of the peanut crop and that there will be less peanut butter on the shelves in three months.

Front

What expresses a central idea of how the laws of supply and demand work?

Back

Prices are determined by the interaction of producers and consumers.

Front

What does this graph show?

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Surplus

Front

What is the Equilibrium Price?

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