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Chapter 3 Self-test questions
Managing demand
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An economist defines demand as the quantity
Customers would like to buy
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Customers can afford
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Customers want to and can afford to buy
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The quantity available to buy
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Bowman strategic clock assesses strategy in terms of:
Perceived benefits and costs
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Perceived benefits and price
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Perceived price and inputs
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Perceived benefits and rivals
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What does a demand curve show?
What customers want to buy all other things unchanged
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The quantity demanded at different income levels
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What consumers are willing and able to purchase at each and every price all other things unchanged
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How much suppliers think they can sell at each price
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What might bring about a change in the quantity demanded of a product?
An increase in income
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An increase in the price of a substitute
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An increase in price
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An increase in advertising
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Complete the sentence. If the price elasticity of demand for a product is -0.2
Demand is price elastic
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An increase in price will increase revenue
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A decrease in price will reduce costs
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A fall in price by 10% will reduce quantity demanded by 2%
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Which of the following statements is true?
The price elasticity of demand is constant along a demand curve
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A price cut increases revenue when demand is price elastic
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If the price elasticity of demand is -2, demand is price inelastic
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The price elasticity of demand is likely to be low if there are many substitutes
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What might cause an outward shift in the demand curve (i.e. a shift to the right) for a normal good?
A decrease in income
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An increase in the price of a substitute
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An increase in the price of a complement
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An increase in supply
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Complete the sentence. If the cross price elasticity of demand between two products is -5
The products are close complements
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The products are close substitutes
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The products are inferior goods
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The products are Giffen goods
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Complete the sentence. If the income elasticity of demand is -0.1
An increase in income by 10% increases demand by 100%
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An increase in income by 10% decreases demand by 100%
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An increase in income by 10% increases demand by 1%
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An increase in income by 10% decreases demand by 1%
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What does it mean if the cross price elasticity of demand is +0.1?
The products are close substitutes
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The products are close complements
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The products are distant substitutes
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The products are distant complements
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Complete the sentence. An inferior good
Has a negative price elasticity and a negative income elasticity of demand
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Has a positive price elasticity and a negative income elasticity of demand
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Has a negative price elasticity and a positive income elasticity of demand
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Has a positive price elasticity and a positive income elasticity of demand
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