Q5(a) Choose the factor capable of shifting demand for new cars (advertising / production costs / indirect taxes / producer subsidies).
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Demand comes up in 21 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 108 marks between them. They run from 2016 to 2025 and appear on A Level Paper 1, A Level Paper 3, AS Level Paper 1, International A Level Unit 1, International A Level Unit 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Explain (5), Identify (MCQ) (4), Define (4). Specification points covered: 1.2.2, 1.3.2.2, 3.3.2.1.
Q5(a) Choose the factor capable of shifting demand for new cars (advertising / production costs / indirect taxes / producer subsidies).
Q5(b) From the March new car registrations chart, 2007-2023, work out the 2023 index number taking 2010 as base.
Q7(a) Work out the percentage fall in UK bicycle sales from 2022 to 2023 using the sales figure chart.
Q8 Explain diminishing marginal utility from how many times hotel guests revisit an unlimited breakfast buffet.
Q6(d) Define substitutes and complementary goods, illustrating each with examples taken from the source material.
Q12(d) Examine two ways a growing market in refurbished handsets is likely to affect phone manufacturers.
Q7(c) Analyse two influences on consumer demand for meals ordered and delivered online.
Q12(a) State the meaning of complementary goods as that term appears in Extract A.
Q12(a) Give the meaning of 'substitutes' as the word is used in Extract A (short definition).
Q5(c) On a diagram of the market for passenger rail services, identify the most likely cause of the shift in demand from D1 to D2.
Q6(b) Drawing on Figure 2, examine two influences that could have shaped rail travel demand in the years after 2008.
Q7 Evaluate the microeconomic fallout as drivers switch from petrol and diesel cars to electric ones, given a forecast peak in car oil use by 2025.
Q1 Pick the change that moves along, rather than shifts, the rice demand curve: cheaper rice, cheaper noodles, higher real incomes, or population growth.
Q11 Use Luca's total utility figures for successive drinks, completing the marginal utility column, to show diminishing marginal utility.
Q2(c) Give a short definition of demand.
Q12(a) Give the meaning of 'substitutes' as the word is used in Extract A (short definition question).
Q5(a) Using a graph of global PC sales 2011–2015, identify the percentage decrease in sales over the period.
Q5(b) Set out one plausible reason why sales of PCs have been falling.
Q1(e) Evaluate the micro and macro consequences of UK consumers buying more coffee from branded coffee shops.
Q6(a) Using a supply and demand diagram, explain why the tobacco advertising ban in Extract A could cut tobacco firms' revenue.
Q4(b) What follows if the buffet is cut from £8.99 down to £6.99 (demand extends / demand curve shifts left / supply curve shifts left / demand contracts).
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