2022, Set 1, Question 3 · Short · 5 points

Market demand from four buyers' schedules

Add individual demand schedules to graph a market with perfectly elastic supply at a given price, then compute and classify price elasticity over a price rise. Decide whether a stated marginal benefit fits one buyer's choices.

This exam had three free-response questions in a 60 minute section (10 minutes of reading and 50 of writing), with about half the time suggested for Question 1 and the rest split evenly between Questions 2 and 3, and the scoring guidelines label Question 1 long and Questions 2 and 3 short. The current exam has 3 free-response questions in 60 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.

1 Read the question

The question is College Board's, from the 2022, Set 1 exam. It starts on page 5 of the PDF. College Board no longer posts this exam, so it opens from the copy of College Board's PDF that the Internet Archive saved on January 6, 2026.

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2 Write your answer

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3 Score it

Score your answer against College Board's scoring guidelines, one point at a time. Give yourself a point only when your answer says what the guideline asks for.

Scoring guidelines (PDF, page 7) What the exam readers saw (Chief Reader report)

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