IGCSE Economics Questions Demand PPC Questions

#63688 The diagram shows the demand for chocolate. What could cause the movement from point X to point Y?

• a change in tastes
• a fall in the price of chocolate
• an increase in income
• a successful advertising campaign for chocolate

#31695 People often eat biscuits when they drink a cup of tea. Between 2010 and 2015, the consumption of sweet biscuits decreased because of health warnings about high sugar consumption. Sales of tea, as a result, also fell. How would this be shown on demand and supply diagrams for biscuits and tea?

• Choose A
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• Choose D

#91844 In June 2010, a government published a proposal to increase Value Added Tax (Goods and Services Tax) on some goods from January 2011. Between June 2010 and January 2011 consumers bought more of those goods before the price increase occurred. After January, consumers bought less of the goods. How would the changes be shown on a demand diagram for the goods?

• Choose A
• Choose B
• Choose C
• Choose D

#32345 The diagram shows a shift in the demand curve for table-tennis balls. What is the most likely cause for this shift in the demand curve?

• a fall in the price of the equipment for substitute games
• an increase in the membership of table-tennis clubs
• a rise in membership fees of table-tennis clubs
• the building of more sports clubs providing table-tennis

#18522 The diagram shows the demand for and the supply of air travel. What could cause a shift of the demand curve from D1 to D2?

• an increase in airline costs
• an increase in airport taxes
• an increase in incomes
• an increase in worldwide terrorism

#44418 The diagram shows a change in the demand for a company’s products as a result of a change in advertising. What has increased?

• the cost of advertising to the company
• the cost of advertising to a rival company
• the expenditure on advertising by the company
• the expenditure on advertising by a rival company

#41844 As incomes have risen in India, cinema attendance has increased. How would this change be shown on a demand and supply diagram?

• Choose A
• Choose B
• Choose C
• Choose D

#18315 The table shows the sales of cold drinks made by a company in the UK in 2001 and 2002. Demand for cold drinks is influenced by changes in the temperature. In 2001 the sales followed the usual seasonal pattern. In which month of 2002 was the usual pattern disturbed?

• May
• June
• July
• August

#57649 The graph shows the market for bread. Which of the following might have caused a change in demand from D1 to D2?

• a fall in the cost of producing bread
• a fall in the price of an alternative to bread
• a newspaper report that eating bread is healthy
• a rise in price of a complement to bread

#18245 On the diagram D1D1 and S1S1 are the original demand and supply curves for tea in a country. What would cause the demand curve to shift from D1D1 to D2D2?

• a decrease in the population
• a decrease in wage levels
• an increase in the price of coffee
• an increase in the price of sugar