The Market Demand for an Item Is

question 190

Multiple Choice

The market demand for an item is

• A) the sum of individual demands.
• B) steeper for any given price change than the individual demand curves.
• C) independent of the number of individuals in the market.
• D) determined by dividing the quantity demanded by each individual by the number of individuals in the market.

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