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TABLE 3. ICE-CREAM PRICES AND CHOCOLATE DEMAND
| Price of | Demand for chocolate | |||
| Chocolate | Low ice-cream price | High ice-cream price | ||
| (£/bar) | (million bars/year) | (million bars/year) | ||
| 0.00 | ||||
| 0.10 | ||||
| 0.20 | ||||
| 0.30 | ||||
| 0.40 | ||||
| 0.50 |
FIGURE 4. ICE-CREAM PRICES AND CHOCOLATE DEMAND
8. Прослушайте 2-3 раза и постарайтесь понять текст В на кассете. Обратите внимание на таблицу 3 и рисунок 4.
9. Дайте краткое изложение текста на русском языке.
10. Выберите утверждения, которые соответствуют содержанию текста Вх):
1) Ice-cream could not be a substitute for chocolate.
2) At each chocolate price there is a larger quantity demanded of chocolate when ice-cream prices are low.
3) When the price of ice-cream rises people substitute chocolate for ice-cream and we have excess demand for chocolate.
4) The effect of excess demand is that the price of chocolate bars rises until it reaches a new equilibrium price.
5) The higher price reduces the quantity demanded.
6) A normal good is a good for which demand reduces when incomes rise.
7) People always tend to buy cheap goods if their incomes are low.
8) When incomes rise, the demand for most goods falls.
