Supply and Demand

What does this curve represent?

• demand
• supply
• equilibrium
• shortage

What does this curve represent?

• supply
• equilibrium
• demand
• surplus

An increase in the price of aspirin is likely to be paired with a(n) ___________________ in the demand for Tylenol because the two goods are __________________.

• increase; complements
  
• increase; substitutes 
•  decrease; complements 
•  decrease; substitutes

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

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

Printers and ink cartridges are typically purchased together.  Economists would call these

• Stubstitues
• Complements
• Elastic
• Inelastic

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.

A government payment made to a business is a

• tax
• regulation
• subsidy
• resource

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

• Advertising
• Population
• Price
• Consumer expectations

A change in quantity demanded is shown

• at various points on the demand curve
• with a new demand curve drawn above or below the original demand curve
• with a vertical line

Consuming more of one good because of a change in price of another good is known as the 

• income effect
• substitution effect
• elasticity effect
• demand effect