At the equilibrium price and quantity, there is neither a surplus nor a shortage of the product. How does price affect a seller's decision to produce a product? If the price consumers are willing to pay for a product is high, producers will produce more of that product.
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The answer is a, he miscalculated, since the Americas hadn't been discovered by europeans (the native americans were there first) they did not account for america in their calculations