Unit 2: Supply and Demand
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What is the focus of macroeconomics?

  • Understanding the everyday microeconomic choices made by businesses
  • Exploring the allocation of resources and prices in the economy
  • Studying the large-scale economy at regional, national, or global levels (correct)
  • Analyzing the economic choices of individuals and households
  • What does microeconomics primarily study?

  • The broader regional and national trends in the economy
  • Influencing macroeconomic trends by government and institutions
  • How economic choices of individuals, households, and businesses affect resource allocation and prices (correct)
  • The growth and shrinkage of the entire economy
  • How are microeconomics and macroeconomics interconnected?

  • Macroeconomic trends directly influence microeconomic choices at the individual and household level
  • Microeconomics and macroeconomics operate independently without any interconnectedness
  • Everyday microeconomic choices made by individuals and businesses contribute to broader regional and national trends studied in macroeconomics (correct)
  • Macroeconomics has no impact on the everyday choices of individuals and businesses
  • Why do government and institutions seek to understand the relationship between macro and microeconomics?

    <p>To influence macroeconomic trends by affecting individual and businesses choices at the microeconomic level</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the law of supply state?

    <p>As the product price increases, the quantity of the product increases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the supply when the cost of production increases?

    <p>Shifts left</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the law of demand?

    <p>As the price of the product increases, the quantity of the product decreases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the demand when income increases?

    <p>Shifts right</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do the supply and demand curves show?

    <p>The relationship between product price and quantity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a shortage on the supply and demand curve?

    <p>When the supply is low and the demand is high</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a surplus on the supply and demand curve?

    <p>When the supply is high and the demand is low</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the equilibrium on the supply and demand curve?

    <p>Where the supply curve intersects with the demand curve</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the equilibrium price when the demand curve shifts right?

    <p>The equilibrium price increases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the equilibrium price when the supply curve shifts right?

    <p>The equilibrium price decreases</p> Signup and view all the answers

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