Thursday, March 20, 2014
Supply and Stuff
This week in Economics, we learned about Supply. It is the willingness and ability of producers to offer goods and services for sale. We were taught about the law of supply as well, along with supply schedules and graphs. Making a supply schedule is a lot of hard work!! You have to calculate marginal cost, marginal revenue, total cost, total revenue, and so much more! It can be very tricky if you aren't paying attention! I got lost once or twice. Supply is very much like demand, so it was pretty easy to understand the concept. There was even 6 factors that change supply, like demand did. They are: technology, producer expectations, number of producers, input costs, labor productivity, and government actions. Also, our awesome teacher allowed for us to be producers of scooters in order for us to learn about supply!! That was the best part of this week's class. My group made "The Rock." It is an awesome vehicle that can do pretty much anything. I want it so badly!!!! You should get it ;) Then we learned about supply by making graphs and schedules for this. It was very helpful! I hope we do something this simple and interesting again! Overall, this is really helpful and has given me insight to the complexity of businesses and how they work.
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Well old sport this week in class was absolutely fun! I agree that learning about marginal cost, marginal revenue etc. was very confusing but once you got the hang of it, you were good to go! Indeed people should buy our product "The Rock"! Everyone would enjoy it, from the happy and lively age of 16 to the wise and wonderful elder years! Class was filled with nothing but fun activities that really helped us to understand these methods. (:
ReplyDeleteSo you're the group that made "The Rock". While it is pretty cool, does it have a top speed of 60 MPH like my group? I only wish that my car had a raft for this flood like yours has. Oh well, back to the drawing board. . .
ReplyDeleteIn my group, which is in 4th block, did a hoover scooter. Also at first I was confused about filling in the chart, but now I understand it quite well now! Thanks to Mrs. Weser!
ReplyDeleteAlthough the chart was confusing at first, it became simpler when I understood the concepts. I enjoyed hearing about the Rock!. Anyone who was smart enough to invest in a flying scooter is probably grateful for it now! They can just cruise by people's houses. They are the envy of anyone trapped in a building by floodwater.
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