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Economics
12th Grade
02/19/2015

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Demand
Definition
The amount of a good or service that a consumer is willing and able to buy at various possible prices during a given time.
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Quantity Demanded
Definition
Is a slightly different concept that describes the amount of a good or service that a consumer is willing and able to buy at a particular price during a given time period
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Law of Demand
Definition
which states that an increase in a good's price causes a decrease in the quantity demanded and that a decrease in price causes an increase in the quantity demanded.
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Purchasing Power
Definition
The amount of money, or income, that people have available to spend on goods and services.
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Income Effect
Definition
Any increase or decrease in consumer's purchasing power caused by a change in price.
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Substitution Effect
Definition
Describes the tendency of consumers to substitute a similar, lower-priced product for another product that is relatively more expensive.
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Diminishing marginal utility
Definition
More units of a product are consumed.
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Demand Schedule
Definition
The price of a good or service and they quantity that consumers demand.
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Demand Curve
Definition
Shows the relationship between the price of a product and the quantity demanded
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Determinants of demand
Definition
Factors that shows the demand in each and every price.
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Substitute goods
Definition
Goods that can be used to replace the purchase of similar goods.
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Complementary goods
Definition
Goods that are commonly used with other goods .
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Elastic Demand
Definition
Exists when a small change inn a good's price causes a major , opposite change in the quantity.
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Elasticity of demand
Definition
is the degree to which changes in a good's price affect the quantity demanded by consumers.
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Inelastic demand
Definition
exists when a change in a goods price has little impact on the quantity demanded
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total revenue
Definition
refers to the total income that a buissness reciebes from selling its products.
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