Answer:
C) producers to supply more and consumers to buy less.
Explanation:
The typical supply curve is upward-sloping (higher price leads to higer quantity supplied) and the typical demand curve is downward sloping (higher price lower quantity demanded).
Price is a measure of how much one good can be exchanged for other things. Production incurred cost (tend to rise as more resources become harder to obtain) so to supply more suppliers will demand higher price. Purchasing higher price good means consumers have less money (less of other goods can be bought) consumer will buy less good at higher price.
Answer:
C. The government guarantees that potato farmers will receive at least $50 a ton.
Explanation:
Price floor is implemented by the government or a group where price control is imposed or limit is placed on how low a price a product can be sold.
For price floor to be effective it must be higher than the equillibrum price.
Equillibrum price is the price at which quantity consumers are willing to pay for is equal to quantity suppliers re willing to sell.
Price floors are usually used to keep commodity prices from going too low.
So if the government guarantees farmers will receive at least $50 per ton of potato, they are setting a price floor of $50.
Answer: d. Products the consumer could have bought instead of cigarettes.
Opportunity cost refers to the loss benefits from the choices a person would have made if he or she had not made a particular choice.
Opportunity cost is also known as alternate cost.
In this question, had the consumer would have spent on other products if he had not bought cigarettes. Hence these products represent the opportunity cost of cigarettes.
Answer:
b. Market share ratio
Explanation:
When the sizes of firms of a particular sector/market are being compared, a common basis for comparison is on the basis of total sales, a larger firm will have a higher ratio of total sales in the sector.
The "concentration ratio" is derived from the market shares. It gives the sum of market shares of the few largest firms in the sector, and is a measure of market power. It is not the correct choice in this case.
