How Prices Work
The Effects of Prices
Social Goals, Prices, and Market Efficiency
100

The monetary value of a product ...

Answer: price.

100

Simplified version of a complex concept or behavior expressed in the form of a graph, figure, equation, or diagram ...

Answer: economic model.

100

The highest legal price that can be charged for a product ...

Answer: price ceiling.

200

System of allocating goods and services without prices ...

Answer: rationing.

200

Price when quantity supplied equals quantity demanded; price that clears the market ...

Answer: equilibrium price.

200

The lowest legal price that can be paid for a product ...

Answer: price floor.

300

Fuel made from wood, peat, municipal solid waste, straw, corn, tires, landfill, gases, fish oils, and other waste ...

Answer: biofuels.

300

Quantity of output supplied that is exactly equal to the quantity demanded at the equilibrium price ...

Answer: equilibrium quantity.

300

Price floor for agricultural products set by the government to stabilize farm prices ...

Answer: target price.

400

Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008 ...

Answer: Fidel Castro (1926-2016).

400

Situation where quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded at a given price ...

Answer: surplus.

400

Loan that carries neither penalty nor further obligation to repay ...

Answer: non-recourse loan.

500

OAPEC petroleum embargo ...

Answer: 1973 oil crisis.

500

Situation where quantity supplied is less than quantity demanded at a given price ...

Answer: shortage.

500

President of the U.S., 1969-74 (resigned) ...

Answer: Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994).