demand and supply

Tools we use to make products

• capital resources
• human resources
• natural resources
• entrepreneurs

In general, if the price of a good or service goes down, what happens to the demand for that good or service?

• demand goes up
• demand stays the same
• demand goes down
• none of the above

Amazon Prime is selling Smencils.  There are only a few packs left and they are very popular.  What will happen to the price?

• The price will go up.
• The price will go down.

What does this curve represent?

• supply
• equilibrium
• demand
• surplus

The diagram represents a

• increase in demand
• decrease in demand
• change in quantity demand
• none of the above

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

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.