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DEMAND LAW
Definition of demand
Demand is a desaire accompanied by willingness and ability to buy goods
and service that they want.
The demand for a type of good is the amount that buyers are willing to pay
at the prevailing price level in
demand "describes the overall state of the relationship between price and
quantity demanded“
it is a hypothesis which states that the lower the price of an item, the
Demand law greater the number of requests for the item and the higher the price of an
item, the less the amount of demand for the item.
Demand is the overall state of the relationship between price and quantity
calculated
The quantity demanded of a good is the quantity demanded at a certain price level
Condition Price (P) Quantites
requested (Q)
P 5000 200
Q 4000 400
Q = f(P)
R 3000 600
Demand List list
S 2000 900
T 1000 1300
Demand Curve
Price
3 R
Quantity
200 600 900
demand curve shape
The sum of all the demands faced by all individual firms (companies)
3 R
2 S
Do
Quantity
200 600 900
Demand curve shift
Price
D1
Do
D2
Q2 Qo Q1 Quantity
Mathematic approach for demand
Q = f (P)
Q= α – βP
βP = α – Q
P = α/β – 1/β Q P = 250 – 0,075Q
P = a- BQ ( is called the inverse a = 250
acceptance function) b = -0,075
a is an intercept
b is and slope or the slope of the demand
curve(-b = dP/dQ)