Question : How do consumer tastes and preferences affect a commodity's demand directly?
Option 1: Changes in the Supply of a commodity
Option 2: Changes in the Consumer’s behavior
Option 3: Changes in the price of the overall market
Option 4: Changes in Fashion
Correct Answer: Changes in Fashion
Solution : A commodity's demand is also influenced by consumer tastes and preferences. It increases when the consumer's tastes and inclinations change favorably, and vice versa. It changes with fashion. Hence option d is the correct answer.
Question : The elasticity of demand is the degree of responsiveness of demand for a commodity to a ___________.
Option 1: Change in consumer's wealth
Option 2: Change in the price of substitutes
Option 3: Change in consumer's taste
Option 4: Change its price
Question : The market equilibrium for a commodity is determined by:
Option 1: the market supply of the commodity.
Option 2: the balancing of the force of demand and supply for the commodity.
Option 3: the intervention of the government.
Option 4: market demand of the commodity.
Question : Law of Demand states that there is a negative relationship between ______.
Option 1: demand for a commodity and its supply
Option 2: demand for a commodity and its price
Option 3: tax on a commodity and its price
Option 4: supply of a commodity and its price
Question : If a consumer's demand for a good moves in the same direction as the consumer's income, the consumer's demand for that good must be inversely related to the price of the good, which is called _____.
Option 1: law of demand
Option 2: law of supply
Option 3: law of substitute
Option 4: law of optimal choice
Question : If a consumer's income rises or the price of a complementary good falls, the-
Option 1: The product's demand curve shifts to the right.
Option 2: The product's demand curve shifts to the left.
Option 3: The product's supply curve shifts to the right.
Option 4: The product's supply curve shifts to the left.
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