Supply & Demand

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This part of the market determines DEMAND: buyers, sellers, suppliers, store owners

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buyers

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This part of the market determines SUPPLY

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sellers

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

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it goes down

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When quantity supplied and quantity demanded is equal

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equilibrium

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What does this curve represent? Options: supply, equilibrium, demand, surplus

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demand

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What causes the change in sales at the local grocery store when thousands of people leave a small town due to a factory closing down?

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Change in the number of buyers

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Goods that are bought and used together are

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complementary goods

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The diagram represents a

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increase in demand

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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.

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Which statement expresses a central idea of how the laws of supply and demand work? Options: The government sets the prices for goods and services., Prices are determined by the interaction of producers and consumers., Consumers alone determine the prices for goods and services., Technology dictates the prices charged for goods and services.

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Prices are determined by the interaction of producers and consumers.