If the Demand for a Good Increases by More Than

question 217

Multiple Choice

If the demand for a good increases by more than the supply of the good increases,then the good's equilibrium price will __________ and its equilibrium quantity will __________.

• A) rise; fall
• B) rise; rise
• C) fall; fall
• D) fall; rise

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold value in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis; it is determined by the chosen significance level.

Null Hypothesis

In statistics, it posits that there is no effect or difference among the groups being studied or variables being compared.

Alpha

In hypothesis testing, alpha level represents the threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis, often set at 0.05 or 5% risk of Type I error.

T-statistic

A statistic calculated from a dataset to compare the mean of the data to a hypothetical mean as part of a t-test.