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Lessons:
Trade in Colonial America / NAFTA
Timing is Everything
Developing a Financial Investment Portfolio
Widgets: Producing More, Using Less
How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
Mystery Workers
Demand Shifters
Government Spending
Those Golden Jeans
The Great Depression Mystery
Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives

Demand Shifters:
 An internet application of Lesson 5, "Demand Shifters,"
from Focus: Middle School Economics
Student Version

Evaluation

Blue jeans are a popular consumer good with teenagers. Which of the following would cause the demand for blue jeans to decrease?
Schools across the country establish a dress code that prohibits wearing blue jeans to school.
 The price of blue jeans rises.

For each headline below, determine if there will be a change in demand or quantity demanded in the identified market and if this change will result in an increase or decrease in demand or quantity demanded.

Pete's Pizzeria increases the price for a small pizza.
What will happen in the market for Pizza Heaven's small pizza?
Demand Change Quantity Demanded Change
  
Will the quantity demanded:
Increase Decrease
  
Gasoline Prices Rise
 What kind of change will happen in the gasoline market?
Demand Change Quantity Demanded Changed
  
Will the quantity demanded:
Increase Decrease
Consumers lose weight by eating jelly beans.
 What kind of change will happen in the market for jelly beans?
Demand Change Quantity Demanded Change
Hamburger goes on sale.
 What will happen in the market for hamburger buns?
Demand Change Quantity Demanded Change
Will the quantity demanded:
Increase Decrease