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Write Whether the Following Statement is True Or False: Salt Has Elastic Demand. - Economics

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Write whether the following statement is True or False: 

Salt has elastic demand.

उत्तर

 False, salt does not have elastic demand.
Explanation:
Salt has inelastic demand. This is because salt has no close substitutes and makes up a very small amount of the household budget. Due to this, a change in prices of salt has a little or no impact on its quantity demanded.

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  Group 'A'   Group 'B'
a. Pen and ink 1 Quantity-price
b. Revenue 2 Accident
c. Insurable risk 3 Transfer income
d. Unemployment allowance 4 Short period
e. Reverse repo rate 5 Long period
    6 Change in demand
    7 Joint demand
    8 Quantity * price

Define demand. Name the factors affecting market demand.


When does ‘decrease’ in demand take place?


What is meant by inelastic demand?


Compare inelastic demand with perfectly inelastic demand.


The demand of a commodity, when measured through the expenditure approach, is inelastic. A fall in its price will result in : (choose the correct alternative)

(a) No change in expenditure on it.

(b) Increase in expenditure on it.

(c) Decrease in expenditure on it.

(d) Anyone of the above.


Demand deposits include (choose the correct alternative)

(a) Saving account deposits and fixed deposits

(b) Saving account deposits and current account deposits

(c) Current account deposits and fixed deposits

(d) All types of deposits


When the income of the consumer falls the impact on a price-demand curve of an inferior good is: (choose the correct alternative)

a. Shifts to the right.
b. Shifts of the left.
c. There is upward movement along the curve.
d. There is downward movement along the curve


State the factors leading to fall in demand by an individual consumer


Fill in the blank with proper alternatives given in the bracket:

Indirect demand is also known as _______ demand.


Choose the correct answer:        
Demand for habitual commodity is _____________.
(a) more elastic demand
(b) less elastic demand
(c) zero elastic demand
(d) unitary elastic demand

Define or explain the concept of Demand schedule.


Write Explanatory answer.

State and explain the law of demand with its exception. 


Explain the following concepts or give definitions. 

Demand 


Fill in the blank with appropriate alternatives given below:

When less is purchased at the constant price, it is called _______ in demand.


Match the following:
 

Group A
Group B
1. Demand and price
a. Substitute goods
2. Tea and coffee
b. Inverse relation
3. Inferior goods
c. Joint demand
4. Factors of production
d. Distribution of income
5. Pen and ink
e. Composite demand
 
f. Giffen goods
 
g. Indirect demand

State whether the following statement is TRUE and FALSE

Demand curve slopes upward from left to right.


State whether the following statement is TRUE and FALSE

Desire means demand.


State whether the following statement is TRUE and FALSE

Quantity demanded varies directly with price.


Give reason or explain the following statement.

Increase in demand indicates a rightward shift in the demand curve.


Give reason or explain the following statement.

Demand for factors of production is derived demand.


Distinguish between Desire and Demand.


Fill in the blank using appropriate alternatives given below

The demand for perishable goods is _______


State whether the following statement is True or False:

Demand for luxurious goods is elastic .


Answer the following question.
Discuss the relationship between the income of the consumer and demand for a commodity with respect to normal goods, inferior goods, and necessities.


Choose the correct answer from given options

In the given figure X1Y1 and X2Yare Production Possibility Curves in two different periods T1 and T2 respectively for Good X and Good Y. A1 and A2 represent actual outputs and P1 and Prepresent potential outputs respectively in the two times periods.

The change in actual output of Goods X and Y over the two periods would be represented by a movement from __________. 


In case of ______ supply curve is a vertical straight line parallel to Y-axis.


There is a sudden change in climatic conditions resulting in hot weather. Assuming no change in the price of the cold drinks, it will lead to ______


From the set of statements given in Column A and Column B, choose the correct pair of statement:

Column A Column B
1. Reduction of pollution (a) Microeconomics
2. Problems due to unemployment (b) Microeconomics
3. Shift in the demand curve (c) Microeconomics
4. Government expenditure on building of roads (d) Microeconomics

Identify the correct pair of items from the following Columns I and II:

Column I Column II
(1) Utility (a) Bread and butter
(2) Normal Goods (b) Rise in price
(3) Contraction in demand (c) Capacity of a commodity to satisfy human wants.
(4) Complementary goods (d) Positively related

If the increase in demand is greater than the increase in supply, then equilibrium price will ______


Identify the correct pair of items from the following Columns I and II:

Column I  Column II
(1) Budget Line (a) Normal goods
(2) Bajra (b) Inferior goods
(3) Consumer equilibrium (c) Luxurious goods
(4) Elastic Demand (d) M = Px*x + py*y

Area under MC curve is equal to:


Which of the following is correct?


Identify the market form which has indeterminate demand curve:


Read the following news report and answer the Q.97-Q.100 on the basis of the same:

The quantity of a commodity that a consumer is willing to buy and is able to afford, given the prices of goods and the consumer's tastes and preferences is called demand for the commodity. Whenever one or more of these variables change, the quantity of the good Chosen by the consumer is likely to change as well. The relation between the consumer's optimal choice of the quantity of a good and its price is very important and this relation is called the demand function. Thus, the consumer's demand function for a good gives the amount of the good that the consumer chooses at different levels of its price when the other things remain.

What is meant by the contraction of demand?


Which of the following statement is true?


"Market demand curve is constructed by horizontally summing all the individual's demand curves at each and every price." Choose the correct option for the above-mentioned statement.


Which of the following is the reason behind the downward slope of demand option?


Which of the following statements is true?


Read the case study and answer the questions 97 to 100:

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage company, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The first company that conducted its operation in the soft drink industry was Coca-Cola. It is the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage company serving more than 1.8 billion consumers daily in more than 200 countries. It has a portfolio of more than 3,500 (more than 800 no or low-calorie) products. However, the company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola which was originally intended to be a patented medicine invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola products can be termed as normal goods and in August 2019 Coca-Cola introduced a new product into the market, that is, zero sugar where the demand has increased for the product in the market.

According to the council of the Australian Food Technology Association and Institute of Food Science and Technology, the Australian nonalcoholic beverages industry has been growing steadily, with a 2.3 percent increase in overall production in the year 2000 which amounts to 2.25 billion liters. However, in the re~ent years, sales of customary carbonated soft drinks have dropped as more and more customers become health conscious and move away from high-calorie sugary drinks. Soft Carbonated drinks. and other alcohol-free beverage manufacturers have also sensed the effects of intensifying competition from private-label soft drink makers. Nevertheless, sales of greater value energy and sports drinks have driven profit generation in the industry.

The demand for Coca-cola is ______ in the present times.


Read the case study and answer the questions 97 to 100:

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage company, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The first company that conducted its operation in the soft drink industry was Coca-Cola. It is the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage company serving more than 1.8 billion consumers daily in more than 200 countries. It has a portfolio of more than 3,500 (more than 800 no or low-calorie) products. However, the company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola which was originally intended to be a patented medicine invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola products can be termed as normal goods and in August 2019 Coca-Cola introduced a new product into the market, that is, zero sugar where the demand has increased for the product in the market.

According to the council of the Australian Food Technology Association and Institute of Food Science and Technology, the Australian nonalcoholic beverages industry has been growing steadily, with a 2.3 percent increase in overall production in the year 2000 which amounts to 2.25 billion liters. However, in the re~ent years, sales of customary carbonated soft drinks have dropped as more and more customers become health conscious and move away from high-calorie sugary drinks. Soft Carbonated drinks. and other alcohol-free beverage manufacturers have also sensed the effects of intensifying competition from private-label soft drink makers. Nevertheless, sales of greater value energy and sports drinks have driven profit generation in the industry.

The demand. for coca-cola has ______


Read the case study and answer the questions 97 to 100:

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage company, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The first company that conducted its operation in the soft drink industry was Coca-Cola. It is the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage company serving more than 1.8 billion consumers daily in more than 200 countries. It has a portfolio of more than 3,500 (more than 800 no or low-calorie) products. However, the company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola which was originally intended to be a patented medicine invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola products can be termed as normal goods and in August 2019 Coca-Cola introduced a new product into the market, that is, zero sugar where the demand has increased for the product in the market.

According to the council of the Australian Food Technology Association and Institute of Food Science and Technology, the Australian nonalcoholic beverages industry has been growing steadily, with a 2.3 percent increase in overall production in the year 2000 which amounts to 2.25 billion liters. However, in the re~ent years, sales of customary carbonated soft drinks have dropped as more and more customers become health conscious and move away from high-calorie sugary drinks. Soft Carbonated drinks. and other alcohol-free beverage manufacturers have also sensed the effects of intensifying competition from private-label soft drink makers. Nevertheless, sales of greater value energy and sports drinks have driven profit generation in the industry.

______ is the want to buy a product backed by purchasing power.


In an open economy, Aggregate Demand is estimated as:


Demand deposits include:


Identify the correctly matched pair of the items in Column A to that of Column B.

Column A Column B
(1) Increase in demand for goods  (a)  Leftward shift in the demand curve
(2) Decrease in demand (b) Perfectly Elastic Demand
(3) Ed = ∞ (c) Increases in the income of the consumer
(4) Downward Sloping (d)  Income elasticity of Demand

Which of the following statements is true?


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