A: producers can satisfy the consumers by mechanized production.
B: consumers can express their demands through producers.
C: producers decide the prices of products.
D: supply and demand regulate prices.
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- Suppose demand for electricity is perfectly inelastic. A tax on electricity will be ( ) A: split between producers and consumers in equal shares. B: paid only by producers. C: paid only by consumers. D: split between producers and consumers in unequal shares.
- In what kind of economy is production determined by the interaction of supply and demand and signaled to producers through the price system?
- If a small country imposes a tariff on imported motorcycles ( ) A: the surplus of the domestic producers of motorcycles will decline, but the surplus of the domestic consumers will increase. B: the surplus of both the domestic producers and consumers of motorcycles will decline. C: the surplus of both the domestic producers and consumers of motorcycles will increase. D: the surplus of the domestic producers of motorcycles will increase, but the surplus of the domestic consumers will decline.
- The principal benefit of tariff protection goes to:（ ） A: Domestic consumers of the good produced B: Domestic producers of the good produced C: Foreign producers of the good produced D: Foreign consumers of the good produced
- The most vocal political pressure for tariffs is generally made by: A: Consumers lobbying for export tariffs B: Consumers lobbying for import tariffs C: Producers lobbying for export tariffs D: Producers lobbying for import tariffs
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How does a producer adjust the product price? A: If nobody buys a product at a particular price, he adjusts it higher. B: If some consumers buy it, but not enough to buy everything produced, producers must increase the price. C: If some consumers buy it, but not enough to buy everything produced, producers must increase the supply. D: Even if there is constant high demand for a product individual producers need to keep the price down.
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In a competitive market, no single producer can influence the market price because A: many other sellers are offering a product that is essentially identical. B: consumers have more influence over the market price than producers do. C: government intervention prevents firms from influencing price. D: producers agree not to change the price.
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The main idea of the text is about ____________. A: how wholesalers sell goods to retailers B: the wholesalers and retailers C: the difference between producers and middlemen D: how retailers service the final consumers
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Prices of daily goods ___________ through a computer can be lower than store prices.
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Answer the following true/false questionA tariff on imported tractors helps U.S. consumers of tractors and hurts U.S. producers of tractors.（ ）