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Question
Give reason or explain the following statement.
Increase in demand indicates a rightward shift in the demand curve.
Solution
When the demand for a good increases due to a change in the factors other than the price of the good, it is called increase in demand. Graphically, it is shown by a parallel rightward shift of the demand curve.
Parallel rightward shift shows that even at constant prices the quantity demanded of the good rises.
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