Supply and Demand

What does this curve represent?

• demand
• supply
• equilibrium
• shortage

What does this curve represent?

• supply
• equilibrium
• demand
• surplus

If the price of printers goes down, what happens in the market for ink cartridges?

• Supply increases.
• Supply decreases.
• Demand increases.
• Demand decreases

Assume the image is showing the market for apples.  Which of the headlines could indicate the pictured shift is occurring in the market?

• Pesticides on apples linked to mouth cancer.
• Storms destroy apple orchards.
• An apple a day really does keep the doctor away.
• New genetic strain leads to apple trees that produce twice as many apples.

The following is a factor that will not cause the demand curve to shift:

• Advertising
• Population
• Price
• Consumer expectations

In a market economy, who decides on the prices of goods and services?

• government
• buyers and sellers
• firms
• local leaders

Generally speaking, the lower the price, the greater the quantity demand.

• True
• False

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

• it goes up
• it goes down
• it stays the same
• it is not effected

For the law of supply, as price rises, what happens to quantity supplied?

• it goes up
• it goes down
• it stays the same
• it is not effected

If farmers stopped growing potatoes because it was too hard, this would cause the ___________ curve for Grippo's to shift ____________.

• demand.........right
• demand.........left
• supply.......right
• supply....... left