Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Maximum and minimum prices

Maximum and minimum prices — practice question

With the aim of improving air quality for its citizens, a government offers a subsidy to producers of cars powered by batteries charged from the electricity supply. How would this subsidy probably affect the price of electricity and the amount sold?

  • Aprice of electricity: falls / sales of electricity: falls
  • Bprice of electricity: falls / sales of electricity: rises
  • Cprice of electricity: rises / sales of electricity: falls
  • Dprice of electricity: rises / sales of electricity: rises

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