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Demand Review II. What is defined as the desire, willingness, and ability to purchase a particular product at a particular price? Demand. What law states that at a certain point, the next unit of a product ads less benefit than the unit before? Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility.
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What is defined as the desire, willingness, and ability to purchase a particular product at a particular price? • Demand
What law states that at a certain point, the next unit of a product ads less benefit than the unit before? • Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
When price increases, what says that the quantities of the product demanded will decrease? • Law of Demand
Which of the following does NOT reflect the Law of Demand? • Income effect • Substitution effect • Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility • A change in consumer income • A sale • #4
What is the economic relationship of a hotdog and hamburger? • Substitutes
What is the relationship between mustard and ketchup? • Complements
What is the phrase that refers to the added benefit to consuming one more unit of a product? • Marginal utility
What happens to the demand for orange juice when the price of lemon aid falls? D2 D1
What happens to the demand for a product when the price of its complement decreases? • Increases • Shifts to the right
What happens to the demand for a product when the price of its substitute falls? • Decreases • Shifts to the left
Create a demand curve demonstrating what happens to the demand for Honda cars when the safety of Toyotas becomes doubtful:
What is the economic relationship between an IPod and earphones? • Complements
What happens to the demand for earphones when the price of IPods increases? • Decreases • Shifts to the left
What happens to the demand for Prom dresses the week before a big price increase? • Decreases • Shifts to the left
Demand curve for glasses when contact lenses go on sale: D2 D1
What do consumers do when price is higher than the product’s marginal utility? • Stop buying the product
Which is NOT a factor that causes a change in demand (as opposed to a change in the quantities demanded)? • Change in income • Change in tastes or preferences • Change in number of consumers (population) • Change in the price of the item • #4
What is the relationship between an electric fan and an air conditioning unit? • Substitutes
What answers the following question? • When price changes, how much do quantities demanded change? • Elasticity • Price elasticity • Elasticity of demand
What are the 3 determinants of demand elasticity? • Urgency/need • Availability of adequate substitutes • The proportion of income required to purchase the product
What is the likely elasticity of demand of a product that has adequate substitutes? • Elastic
When a product is urgent without adequate substitutes, the price elasticity is likely: • Inelastic
When a change in price causes a proportional change in quantities demanded, the elasticity is: • Unit elastic
When price changes cause relatively larger changes in quantities demanded, the elasticity of demand is: • Elastic