Supply and Demand Independent Work

What does this graph show?

• Shortage
• Surplus
• Supply Table
• Equilibrium

If a price floor was set at 320, what quantity would be purchased?

• 20
• 40
• 60
• 80

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?

• Prices or availability of substitutes
• Prices or availability of complementary goods
• Change in the weather or season
• Change in the number of buyers

New technology advances the rate at which furniture can be assembled. Why does this change the supply?

• Change in cost of production
• Changes in number of producers
• Changes in expectations

The market equilibrium price is the price at which

• surpluses depress the number of goods supplied
• shortages and surpluses will have no effect on the market
• the government will not intervene in the market
• the quantity demanded is the same as the quantity supplied

What is the Equilibrium Price?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

When there is a shortage the price will usually? 

• rise
• fall
• remain the same
• equilibrium

Goods that are bought and used together are 

• complementary goods
• substitute goods
• income goods
• unrelated goods

The diagram represents a(n)

• increase in supply
• decrease in supply
• change in quantity supplied
• none of the above

Which of the following is likely to increase the demand for peanut butter?

• 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.