In: Economics
Draw a supply and demand diagram for each part below to show what will happen to the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of ice cream in each of the following situations.
(a) Consumer incomes increase and ice cream is considered a normal good.
b) The price of frozen yogurt falls. (Ice cream and frozen yogurt arc substitutes.)
C) The price of hot fudge topping (a complement) rises.
d) Cows go on strike thereby increasing the price of cream, an important input in the production of ice cream.
e) Doctors announce that eating ice cream can help prevent cancer while at the same time two ice cream factories melt from the summer heat.