<span>A fast-food restaurant decides to raise the price of its hamburgers. assume the firm is in a monopolistically competitive industry. what will happen to the demand for its hamburgers? When the fast-food restaurant raises the price of hamburgers, some customers may stay and pay the higher price because they want that specific brand of hamburgers, other may go elsewhere to find them cheaper.
When prices raise, some customers stay because they are attached to that specific company, others leave because they want a burger but for a lower price.
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Answer:
A
Explanation:
The econimac situatiom will detertoarte further.
Answer:
no surplus or shortage
Explanation:
Equilibrium price is the price at which quantity demand equal quantity supplied. Above equilibrium price there is a surplus - quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded.
Below equilibrium price there is a shortage - quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied
If demamd increases by 100, new equilibrium is 40
Thus, ceiling price equal equilibrium
Price ceiling is when the government or an agency of the government sets the maximum price for a product. It is binding when it is set below equilibrium price.
Effects of a binding price ceiling
It leads to shortages
it leads to the development of black markets
it prevents producers from raising price beyond a certain price
It lowers the price consumers pay for a product. This increases consumer surplus
Choices/ The way goods and services are produced and provided to consumers, and to used by them.