The general demand function represents the relationship between the demand of a product or service and the following six factors: the price of the product or service, the consumers’ income, price of related goods or services, the taste patterns of consumers, expected price of the good in some future period and number of the consumers in the market (Thomas & Maurice, 2012, pp. 40). This general demand function can be applied to all products and services to forecast the quantity that will be demanded based on the current market trends. The remainder of this paper will apply this general demand function to desktop computers and how the various factors affect the product demand.
The first factor to analyze is the price of desktop computers. Like all goods and services in the market, the price and the quantity demanded are inversely related as described in the law of demand. If the price of desktop computers rises, the demand will decrease. Similarly, if the price of desktop computers falls, the demand will rise. Consumers often watch for prices to drop or sales to occur before making big purchases to. Due to the inverse relationship between the demand and the price of the computers, the slope parameter would have a negative sign. This negative sign denotes that as one piece of the equation changes, the other will move in the opposite direction.
The second factor of the general demand function is the consumers’ income. Desktop computers are considered a normal good, or
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Kimberly Amadeo from about.com confirms for us that, “In economics, there are five determinants for individual demand” (Amadeo, K. n.d.). As demonstrated in our module reference materials these determinants are labeled as: income, price of related goods, population, tastes, and consumer price expectations. For the purpose of this essay, in brief I will elaborate upon tastes and income. As, I surmise these are two major factors that could effect change in the demand of the GNC product, let’s first content with the factor of tastes.
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· The slope is linear and is the negative of the ratio of input prices
The following graph demonstrate the demand curve of how many items of a product or service a consumer would like to purchase at different prices. Now by having the product at a lower price, the more a consumer is likely to buy. For that same reason it can be concluded that the price is one major factor of the product demand.
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