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

Maximum and minimum prices — practice question

(a)[8]

Explain, with the help of a diagram, how a free market would react if a minimum price that had been fixed above equilibrium were removed.

(b)[12]

Discuss, with examples, the extent to which a supermarket could use the concept of income elasticity of demand for the different kinds of goods it sells when consumer incomes rise.

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