1 Improvements in Technology

question 225

Multiple Choice

1. Improvements in technology. 2. Increases in the supply (stock) of capital goods.
3) Purchases of expanding output.
4) Obtaining the optimal combination of goods, each at least-cost production.
5) Increases in the quantity and quality of natural resources.
6) Increases in the quantity and quality of human resources.
Use the accompanying list to answer the following question. As distinct from the supply factors and
Efficiency factor of economic growth, the demand factor(s) of economic growth is (are)

• A) 1 only.
• B) 4 only.
• C) 1 and 3 only.
• D) 3 only.

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Definitions:

Shortage

A situation where the demand for a product or service exceeds the available supply at a particular price.

Equilibrium Price

The market price at which the quantity demanded of a good equals the quantity supplied.

Quantity Demanded

The complete quantity of a product or service that buyers are ready and able to buy at a certain price during a defined time frame.

Quantity Supplied

Quantity Supplied is the amount of a commodity that producers are willing to sell at a particular price over a certain period of time.