Economics 103: Individual
and Social Choice
Assignment #1
DUE 2/23/99
- Analyze the market for pizzas.
- Graph the demand curve in the market for pizzas based on
the following information:
|
Price |
Quantity Demanded |
|
$4 |
135 |
|
5 |
104 |
|
6 |
81 |
|
7 |
68 |
|
8 |
53 |
|
9 |
39 |
- Graph the supply curve in the market for pizzas based on
the following information:
|
Price |
Quantity Supplied |
|
$4 |
26 |
|
5 |
53 |
|
6 |
81 |
|
7 |
98 |
|
8 |
110 |
|
9 |
121 |
- Now putting the curves on the same graph, what is the equilibrium
price and quantity? If the actual price in this market were above
the equilibrium price, what would drive the market toward the
equilibrium? If the actual price in this market were below the
equilibrium price, what would drive the market toward the equilibrium?
- Explain each of the following statements using supply-and-demand
diagrams
- When a cold snap hits Florida, the price of orange
juice rises in supermarkets throughout the country.
- When the weather turns warm in New England every summer,
the prices of hotel rooms in the Caribbean resorts plummet.
- When a war breaks out in the Middle East, the price of gasoline
rises, while the price of a used Cadillac falls.
- Suppose that the price of basketball tickets at ISU is determined
by market forces. Currently, the demand and supply schedules
are as follows:
|
Price |
Quantity Demanded |
Quantity Supplied |
|
$4 |
10,000 |
8,000 |
|
8 |
8,000 |
8,000 |
|
12 |
6,000 |
8,000 |
|
16 |
4,000 |
8,000 |
|
20 |
2,000 |
8,000 |
- Draw the demand and supply curves. What is unusual
about this supply curve? Why might this be true?
- What are the equilibrium price and quantity of tickets?
- Suppose ISU plans to increase total enrollment next year
by 5,000 students. The additional students will have the following
demand schedule:
|
Price |
Quantity Demanded |
|
$4 |
4,000 |
|
8 |
3,000 |
|
12 |
2,000 |
|
16 |
1,000 |
|
20 |
0 |
- Now add the old demand schedule and the demand schedule for
the new students to calculate the new demand schedule. Graph
this new demand curve. What will be the new equilibrium price
and quantity?
- Consider the market for minivans. For each of the events
listed here, identify whether demand or supply will be affected
and whether it will increase or decrease. Also, graph the situation
and show whether price and quantity will increase, decrease or
stay the same.
- People decide to have more children.
- A strike by steel workers raises steel prices.
- Engineers develop new automated machinery for the production
of minivans.
- The price of station wagons rises.
- A stock-market crash lowers peoples wealth.