The correct answer is: [C]: "coinsurance" .
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Answer with Explanation:
There are so many factors affecting the demand for a particular commodity. Four of these are: the price of the complements, the income of buyers, changes in trend and advertisements.
1. The price of the complements - Some commodities are complementary with each other, just like cars and gas. If the <em>price of cars decreases</em>, then many people will purchase their own cars, which also follows that <em>the demand for gas will increase.</em>
2. The income of buyers - If the income of a person increases, then he will most likely purchase a particular commodity because he can afford it and has an extra money to purchase goods.
3. Changes in trend - Many people purchase goods because they're on trend. For example, if flare pants are fashionable this year, then the demand for it will increase. Once they're no longer on trend, the demand will drop.
4. Advertisements - The more advertisements a company spends on, the more likely buyers will purchase a specific commodity.
Explanation:
1. If butter complements margarine for instance, and there occurs a sudden increase in the price of butter leading to lower demand, this would affect the demand for margarine negatively leading to a fall in the demand for margarine.
2. If this goods are substitutes the demand for butter will increase when the price of margarine rises.
This is because it is only natural for people to switch to the next best alternative (substitute) that fills the same purpose or needs.
3. Remember Ice cream and ice cream cones complementary goods; meaning the demand for one increases the demand for the other and vice versa.
4. If the price of ice cream increases, demand would also decrease for ice cream as consumers are usually sensitive to price.
This decrease in the demand for ice cream would also affect ice cream cones since they complement each other, leading to a decrease in the demand for ice cream cones.
Answer:Please refer to Explanation
Explanation:
Cross Price Elasticity of Demand is a very useful tool in Economics to ascertain if goods are compliments or Substitutes.
Cross Price Elasticity of Demand (CPSD) measures the change in demand in one good due to a change in price is the other good.
If the CPSD is negative then the goods are Compliments meaning that they are used together which is why when the price of one good goes down, the demand of the compliment goes up because more of the original good will be bought due to the lower price.
If the CPSD is Positive, it means that they are Substitutes and a Decrease in price in one good leads to a decrease in demand for the other good because people will demand less of it and switch to the former (now cheaper) good.
The formula is,
= % change in Quantity Demanded of Product A /% change in Price of Product B
a. Splishy splashies and Flopsicles
CPSD = -18%/-1%
= 18%
The CPSD for both these products is 18% which is a positive figure. This means that they are Substitutes and <u>should not be marketed together. </u>
b. Splishy Splashies and Flopsicles
CPSD = 3%/-1%
= -3%
With the CPSD being a negative figure here, these goods are Compliments.
Splishy Splashies and Flopsicles <u>should be Marketed together</u> as they compliment each other.