Question 1 Report
At a farmers' market, several honey firms lower the price of jars after a large delivery arrives. A shopper notices that some consumers buy extra jars because the price is lower. No change has occurred in tastes, income or the price of substitutes.
(a) What is the name for the relationship between a lower price and a higher quantity demanded? [1]
(b) Explain why this is a movement along the demand curve. [2]
(a) The relationship in which a lower price leads to a higher quantity demanded is the law of demand. [1]
(b) The price of the same good, honey, has changed. Tastes, income and the prices of substitutes have not changed. Therefore quantity demanded changes along the existing demand curve rather than the whole demand curve shifting. [2]
Exam focus: a change in a good's own price causes movement along demand; a change in another determinant causes a demand shift.
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