Question 1
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Which of the following shifts the supply curve for oranges?
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An increase in income for all orange consumers if oranges are a normal good.
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Disastrous weather that destroys about half of this year's orange crop.
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An increase in the number of orange consumers.
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A newly discovered increase in the nutritional value of oranges.
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An increase in the price of bananas, a substitute in consumption for oranges.
Question 2
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Which of the following increases the demand for a good or service?
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A rise in the price of the good or service.
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A fall in the price of the good or service.
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A rise in the price of a substitute good or service.
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A rise in the price of a complement.
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A smaller number of consumers wanting to buy the good or service.
Question 3
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There are five hundred buyers in the market for cheese. If we know each individual's demand curves, to find the market demand we must
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give up because there is no way to find the market demand.
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average the price each buyer is willing to pay for each given quantity.
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add the quantities that each buyer will purchase at every price.
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multiply the price times quantity for each buyer and then add the resulting products together.
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add the prices that each buyer will pay at every quantity.
Question 4
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Consumers eat salsa with corn chips. The price of salsa rises. How does the increase in the price of salsa affect the demand for corn chips?
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It decreases the demand for corn chips.
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It will decrease the demand for corn chips only if corn chips are a normal good.
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It has no effect on the demand for corn chips.
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It increases the demand for corn chips.
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It could increase, decrease or have no effect on the demand for corn chips, but more information is needed to determine the impact.
Question 5
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Two brands of water, Natural Water and Mountain Water, are close substitutes. If the price of Mountain Water decreases, the fall in price
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increases the demand for Mountain Water.
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shifts the demand curve for Natural Water leftward.
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increases the price of Natural Water.
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shifts the demand curve for Natural Water rightward.
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More information is needed to determine if the demand curve for Natural Water shifts rightward or leftward.
Question 6
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In the figure above, a price of $15 per dozen roses results in
Question 7
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Using the data in the table above, at the price of $80 a phone,
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a surplus of 25,000 cellular phones occurs.
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a shortage of 25,000 cellular phones occurs.
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the market is in equilibrium.
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a shortage of 55,000 cellular phones occurs.
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a surplus of 80,000 cellular phones occurs.
Question 8
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Using the data in the table above, the equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price for a cellular phone is
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40,000 and $20
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50,000 and $100
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60,000 and $50
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100,000 and $20
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80,000 and $80
Question 9
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Pizza is a normal good. Which figure above shows the effect of a decrease in consumers' incomes?
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Figure C
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Figure D
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Figure B
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Figure A
Question 10
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Which figure above shows the effect of a decrease in the number of pizza sellers?
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Figure B
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Figure C
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Figure A
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Figure D
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Both Figures A and C