Q4(b) Explain the way market forces work to remove a surplus of coffee.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Price determination comes up in 45 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 289 marks between them. They run from 2016 to 2025 and appear on A Level Paper 1, AS Level Paper 1, International A Level Unit 1.
Tariffs run from 1 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Analyse (19), Explain (6), Draw/Diagram (5). Specification points covered: 1.2.6, 1.3.4.1.
Q4(b) Explain the way market forces work to remove a surplus of coffee.
Q12(b) Analyse two reasons container freight rates climbed so steeply, with a market diagram, using Figure 1 and the Red Sea extract.
Q13 Assess, with a market diagram, the micro gains from electric vehicle sales rising from 1.18m in 2017 to 13.8m in 2023.
Q12(b) Analyse one supply and one demand cause of cocoa's roughly 68% price jump to 2023, with a diagram.
Q12(b) Analyse one demand-side and one supply-side reason the uranium price more than doubled from 2020 to 2023, with a diagram.
Q2(c) On a demand and supply diagram, show what the cyclone does to vanilla bean prices, Madagascar being 75–80% of world supply.
Q6(a) Explain, using Extract A plus a supply and demand diagram, why electronic device prices moved as chip prices climbed past $1 from $0.20.
Q12(b) Supported by a diagram, analyse two influences that drove world rice prices upward between July 2022 and July 2023.
Q12(c) Analyse one demand and one supply cause of the 147% jump in world chicken prices, with a diagram.
Q13 Evaluate the microeconomic consequences of natural disasters becoming more frequent, with a diagram.
Q12(c) Analyse one demand cause and one supply cause of the world fertiliser price rise from early 2021 to spring 2022, with a diagram.
Q1(c) State what is meant by an equilibrium price (short definition).
Q6(e) Discuss why streaming television has been getting dearer, supporting the answer with a demand and supply diagram.
Q12(c) With a supply and demand diagram, analyse two forces behind lithium's steep price increase up to October 2022.
Q7 Draw a diagram showing how a Spanish heatwave cutting olive output affects the global olive market.
Q12(b) Using Extract A's opening paragraph and a demand-and-supply sketch, analyse two forces that lifted house prices over the year from March 2020.
Q14 Assess how fertiliser costs quadrupling would hit farmers and households, including one diagram covering the effect on farmers.
Q12(c) Analyse, using Extract A, two causes of the average 20% jump in semiconductor prices; supply and demand diagram required.
Q12(d) Examine two probable consequences for car manufacturers of excess demand in semiconductors, drawing on Extract B and Figure 1.
Q1(b) Sketch demand and supply for Disney+ services, showing how the shift in subscriber numbers moves that market's equilibrium.
Q6(a) Explain what the 2020 Total Allowable Catches would do to cod prices, supported by a demand and supply diagram.
Q12(c) Analyse two drivers of copper's sharp world price rise from May to December 2020, using Figure 1, Extract A and a demand-and-supply diagram.
Q12(c) Examine two forces pushing the world cotton price up between 1 April 2020 and 1 January 2021, using the supply and demand diagram alongside Figure 1 and Extract A.
Q2(a) Using the data given, show on a demand and supply diagram why cobalt cheapened over the year to June 2019 (context: China trimming EV subsidies, new small DRC mines).
Q2(b) Read off the cobalt price graph and state the percentage drop recorded from June 2018 to June 2019.
Q12(b) Taking Figure 1 with Extract A, analyse why rubber's world price slid from $1.67 to $1.35 per kg across January to May 2020; support this with a supply and demand diagram.
Q12(c) Give two reasons why world sugar prices slid in the twelve months to August 2018, with Figure 1, Extract A and a demand-and-supply diagram.
Q12(c) Drawing on Figure 1 and Extract A, analyse the drop in world oil prices during early 2020; include a supply and demand diagram.
Q6(e) Discuss the gains from letting universities set higher fees on certain degree courses, using Figure 1 and Extract A.
Q12(a) State what 'equilibrium' means, as Extract A uses the word.
Q12(c) Account for the 2018 fall in palm oil prices in two ways, drawing on the data and a supply and demand diagram.
Q12(c) Analyse the sharp rise in vanilla prices across 2014 to 2018, citing Figure 2 and Extract A, and include a supply and demand diagram.
Q12(c) Analyse, using a demand and supply diagram, one cause of the sharp 2017 fall in plastic waste prices after China's import ban.
Q2(a) Show, on a demand/supply diagram, how Hurricane Harvey affected the US oil market at micro level once almost a quarter of production capacity shut.
Q6(e) Discuss what is pushing up the cost of treatment in private hospitals, with a supply and demand diagram.
Q12(c) Analyse one cause of lamb becoming dearer through 2017, citing Figure 2 and Extract A, and include a supply and demand diagram.
Q10 Using a table of quantity demanded and supplied of bottled water at each price, calculate the new equilibrium price after an advertising campaign raises demand by 100 bottles at every price, showing workings.
Q12(c) Analyse one cause of cocoa beans dropping under $2 000 a tonne by April 2017, using Figure 1 and Extract A, with a supply and demand diagram.
Q3(a) An estate agent charges 1.3% to sell a house; calculate the fee it collects on a £489 000 sale.
Q3(b) Given average house prices of £489 000 in London and £127 000 in the North East, identify the ratio of the two.
Q3(c) Set out one reason average house prices might differ so much between London and England's North East.
Q6(a) Using Figure 1, explain one cause of the broad direction taken by real gas and electricity prices.
Q6(a) Using Figure 1 and Extract A, account for uranium hitting a 13-year low price in 2016, with a supply and demand diagram.
Q1(a) From the e-cigarette kit schedule, work out where price and quantity settle once demand gains 3 000 units and supply gains 1 000 units at every price.
Q6(d) From Figure 2, calculate the percentage move in house prices from the opening quarter of 2009 to the opening quarter of 2015.
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