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

Maximum and minimum prices — practice question

A government wants to keep farmers’ incomes stable. It does this by using a policy of buying and selling farm products on the free market. In which situation would it not have to react to changes in the supply of farm products?

  • Awhen elasticity of supply of farm products is zero
  • Bwhen farmers produce record harvests
  • Cwhen price elasticity of demand for farm products is unitary
  • Dwhen weather conditions can be accurately predicted

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