Suppose There Are Only Two Goods, Apples and Oranges

question 164

Multiple Choice

Suppose there are only two goods, apples and oranges. What happens if the price of each good increases by 15 percent?

• A) The consumer will substitute apples for oranges.
• B) The consumer will substitute oranges for apples.
• C) There is no substitution effect because relative prices have remained constant.
• D) Demand for both goods increases.
• E) Demand for both goods decreases.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are.

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.