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202 Supply and Deman
Supply and Demand
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Buyer's market | The best time for consumers to buy; characterized by large supply, small demand and how low prices |
| Buying power | The amount of money |
| Complementary goods | Products that are used together (e.g., shirks and blouses, ski boots and ski, software and computers |
| Consumers buying power | Cash and credit a consumer has available to spend |
| cost of production | The tola amount of money spent on cost of materials, labor, taxes, etc., to manufacture economic goods and services |
| demand | the quantity of a good service that buyers are ready to but at given price at a particular time |
| elastic demand | a from of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| elasticity | an indication of how changes in price well affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied |
| equilibrium | the point at which the quantity demand |
| equilibrium price | the point at which the quantity of good that buyers want to buy is equal to the quantity that sellers are willing to sell at a certain price |
| inelastic demand | a from of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand |
| law of demand | economic principle which that the quantity of a good or service that people will buy varies in price of good or service |
| law of supply and demand | economic principle which states that the supply of good or service will increase when demand if great and decrease when demand is low |
| sellers market | the best time for producers to sell; characterized by large demand small supply and high prices |
| standard of living | the general condition sin which people live; quality of life |
| substitute goods | items that can be used in place of other items that satisfy the same needs/wants similar goods |
| supply | the quantity of good or service that sellers are and willing to offer for sale at specified price in given time period |
| utility | usefulness capable of satisfying wants and needs |