AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure

4.1.3.4 Price elasticity of supply

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.2.4

Everything you need for questions on price elasticity of supply, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Price elasticity of supply (PES)
  2. What makes supply price elastic?
  3. Time: short run and long run
  4. Calculations
  5. Classic question: why are farm prices so volatile?
  6. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  7. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. A craze for e-bikes
  2. Build a supply curve
  3. Sort the products
  4. PES trainer
  5. When supply can't keep up
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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