ECONOMICS,GRAPHS & CHARTStherelationship, asshownby alineon agraph, between thepriceofgoodsorservicesand theamountorquantitythatpeoplebuyduring aparticularperiodoftime:It isgenerallyassumedthat thedemandcurveisdownwardsloping: aspricesgo up,demandgoes down.(Definition ofdemand curvefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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demand curveThis change is reflected in a movement along thedemandcurve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus the price line is also identical to thedemandcurve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Third the x intercept of the marginal revenue curve is half that of the inversedemandcurve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedemandcurvefor all consumers together follows from thedemandcurveof every individual consumer: the individual demands at each price are added together.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedemandcurveis related to the marginal utility curve, since the price one is willing to pay depends on the utility.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Above the point of unitary elasticity is the elastic range of thedemandcurve(meaning that the elasticity is greater than one).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is done in the next diagram where each segment is considered as a separate market with its owndemandcurve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sum of these areas will always be greater than the area without discrimination assuming thedemandcurveresembles a rectangular hyperbola with unitary elasticity.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nothing else might be known about thedemandcurve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The nominal factors that determine inflation affect the aggregatedemandcurveonly.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/demand-curve##
