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Economics "Using demand and supply diagrams explain recent changes in the price in coffee" Introduction A market exists wherever there are buyers an sellers of a particular good. Buyers demand goods from the market whilst sellers supply goods onto the market. Demand is the quantity of goods or services that will be bought at any given price over a period of time. The demand curve is downward sloping, showing that the lower the price, the higher will be the quantity demanded of a good. Demand curve Supply in economics is defined as the quantity of goods that sellers are prepared to sell at any given price over a period of time. The supply curve is upward sloping, showing that firms increase production of a good as its price increases. This is because a higher price enables firms to make profit on the increased output whereas at the lower price they would have made a...

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