Q3:    Answer the following questions with the help of the table that shows the demand and supply for potato chips:   a. What are the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of potato chips? b. If chips were 60 cents a bag, describe the situation in the market for potato chips and explain what would happen to the price of a bag of chips.   suppose a new snack food comes onto the market and as a result the demand for potato chips decreases by 40 million bags per week.   c. Has there been a shift in or a movement along the supply curve of chips?

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Answer the following questions with the help of the table that shows the demand and supply for potato chips:

 

a. What are the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of potato chips?

b. If chips were 60 cents a bag, describe the situation in the market for potato chips and explain what would happen to the price of a bag of chips.

 

  • suppose a new snack food comes onto the market and as a result the demand for potato chips decreases by 40 million bags per week.

 

c. Has there been a shift in or a movement along the supply curve of chips?

d. Has there been a shift in or a movement along the demand curve for chips?

e. What is the new equilibrium price and quantity of chips?

 

  • suppose that a flood destroys several potato farms and as a result supply decreases by 20 million bags a week at the same time as the new snack food comes onto the market.

 

f. What is the new equilibrium price and quantity of chips?

 

 

 

Price (cents per bag)

Quantity demanded (millions of bags a week)

Quantity supplied (millions of bags a week)

40

170

90

50

160

100

60

150

110

70

140

120

80

130

130

90

120

140

100

110

150

110

100

160

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