Question
Distinguish between increase in demand and increase in quantity demanded of a good.
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Answer
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Basis
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Increase in demand
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Increase in quantity demanded
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| 1. |
Cause
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Increase in demand is due to change in factors other than price of the given good e.g. increase in income, favourable change in tastes etc.
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Increases in quantity demanded is due to fall in the own price of the given commodity.
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| 2. |
Demand curve
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Increase in demand leads to "rightward shift” of the demand curve from $DD$' to $D_1D_1$.
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Increase in quantity demanded leads to “downward movement” along a demand curve from point A to point B.
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| 3. |
Diagram
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