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Chapter 20: Demand
      
  1.For demand to exist a consumer must __________.  
  a.   have the desire to buy a good or service  
  b.   have the money to buy a good or service  
  c.   have the desire and willingness to buy a good or service  
  d.   have the desire, willingness, and ability to buy a good or service  
      
  2.According to the law of demand, quantity demanded and price __________.  
  a.   move in opposite directions  
  b.   move in the same direction  
  c.   are unrelated  
  d.   can be determined separately  
      
  3.The pleasure, usefulness, and satisfaction a consumer gets from using a product is called __________.  
  a.   collateral  
  b.   utility  
  c.   contraction  
  d.   durability  
      
  4.A table that shows the quantity demanded of a good or service at each possible price is called a __________.  
  a.   market graph  
  b.   quantity schedule  
  c.   demand schedule  
  d.   market-demand graph  
      
  5.When you experience less satisfaction from eating the fourth slice of pizza than you did the first, it is an example of __________.  
  a.   demand drop-off  
  b.   marginal scale drop  
  c.   diminishing marginal utility  
  d.   utility decline  
      
  6.Movement of population into a market area can lead to __________.  
  a.   an increase in demand  
  b.   a decrease in demand  
  c.   no change in demand  
  d.   unemployment  
      
  7.When demand decreases, the demand curves __________.  
  a.   shifts to the left  
  b.   shifts to the right  
  c.   curves upward  
  d.   forms a horizontal line  
      
  8.An example of substitutes would be __________.  
  a.   coffee and tea  
  b.   cars and gasoline  
  c.   videotapes and VCRs  
  d.   pharmacists and medicine  
      
  9.An example of complementary goods would be __________.  
  a.   margarine and butter  
  b.   pens and pencils  
  c.   computers and software  
  d.   trains and airplanes  
      
  10.If changes in price have little effect on the demand for a product, the demand is considered __________.  
  a.   elastic  
  b.   stretchable  
  c.   static  
  d.   inelastic  

 






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