65 Outcome: Equilibrium

What you’ll learn to do: explain and graphically illustrate market equilibrium, surplus, and shortage

In this section, you’ll learn how supply and demand interact to determine the price in a market.

The specific things you’ll learn in this section include the following:

Define and explain equilibrium price and quantity
Create a graph that illustrates equilibrium price and quantity
Define and explain surpluses and shortages
Create a graph that illustrates surpluses and shortages
Describe how disequilibrium can create surpluses and shortages; explain how markets eliminate them

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this section include the following:

Reading: Equilibrium, Surplus, and Shortage
Video: Market Equilibrium
Reading: Changes in Equilibrium
Worked Example: Supply and Demand
Simulation: Food Trucks and Changes in Equilibrium
Self Check: Equilibrium

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