Market Demand Curves Are Obtained by

question 271

Multiple Choice

Market demand curves are obtained by

• A) determining the price each consumer is willing to pay for the good and summing those prices across all consumers.
• B) observing the prices and quantities sold in a market over time and plotting those price-quantity combinations in a graph.
• C) summing the quantities every consumer is willing to buy at each different price.
• D) observing the behavior of an individual consumer in a market.
• E) averaging the quantities every consumer is willing to buy at each different price.

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