When there is an excess demand of a product in an unregulated market, the tendency is for

A. price to rise.
B. price to decrease.
C. quantity demanded to increase.
D. quantity supplied to decrease.


Answer: A

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If you have a mortgage on your house at 6 percent and the inflation rate when the mortgage was acquired was 3 percent but has since increased and is now 8 percent per year; the current real interest rate is

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A graph that shows the percentage of the families on one axis and the percentage of income on the other is called the:

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