Class 12 Micro Economics - Chapter Market Equilibrium NCERT Solutions | Suppose the demand and supply curve of c

How will a change in the price of coffee affect the equilibrium price of tea? Explain the effect on equilibrium quantity also through a diagram. 

When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?

Suppose the price at which the equilibrium is attained in exercise 5 is above the minimum average cost of the firms constituting the market. Now if we allow for free entry and exit of firms, how will the market price adjust to it?

How are equilibrium price and quantity affected when income of the consumers

a) Increase

b) Decrease

Suppose the market determined rent for apartments is too high for common people to afford. If the government comes forward to help those seeking apartments on rent by imposing control on rent, what impact will it have on the market for apartments?

Explain market equilibrium.

Explain through a diagram the effect of a rightward shift of both the demand and supply curves on equilibrium price and quantity.

Explain how price is determined in a perfectly competitive market with a fixed number of firms.

How is the optimal amount of labor determined in a perfectly competitive market?

Suppose the demand and supply curves of salt are given by:

(a) Find the equilibrium price and quantity.

(b) Now, suppose that the price of an input that used to produce salt has increased so, that the new supply curve is qs = 400 + 3p

How does the equilibrium price and quantity change? Does the change conform to your expectation?

(a) Suppose the government has imposed at ax of Rs 3 per unit of sale on salt. How does it affect the equilibrium rice quantity? 

Explain the concept of a production function

What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?

(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?

(b) A horizontal line?

Discuss the central problems of an economy.

What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?

What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?

What is the total product of input?

From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:

What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?

How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?

What is budget line?

What is the marginal product of an input? 

Discuss the central problems of an economy.

What is the reason for the long run equilibrium of a firm in monopolistic competition to be associated with zero profit?

Suppose a consumer wants to consume two goods which are available only in
integer units. The two goods are equally priced at Rs 10 and the consumer’s
income is Rs 40.
(i) Write down all the bundles that are available to the consumer.
(ii) Among the bundles that are available to the consumer, identify those which cost her exactly Rs 40.

The market demand curve for a commodity and the total cost for a monopoly firm producing the commodity are given in the schedules below. 

Use the information given to calculate the following:

(a) The MIR and MC schedules

(b) The quantities for which MIR and MC are equal

(c) The equilibrium quantity of output and the equilibrium price of the commodity

(d) The total revenue, total cost and total profit in the equilibrium

What do you mean by an ‘inferior good’? Give some examples

From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:

Consider the demand curve D (p) = 10 – 3p. What is the elasticity at price 53?

What are the average fixed cost, average variable cost and average cost of a firm? How are they related? 

Explain why the budget line is downward sloping.