12 a) Start at a price of $3 per bushel and increase the price to $6 in $.50 increments. What are the equilibrium price and quantity? Quantity Quantity Price demanded supplied 13 (billions) (billions) 14 $3.00 15 $3.50 16 $4.00 17 $4.50 18 $5.00 19 $5.50 20 $6.00 21 Equilibrium price = 22 Equilibrium quantity = billion bushels 23 b) What happens to consumer, producer, and total surplus as you increase the price from $3 to the equilibrium? 24 Start price = $3.00 25 Market quantity = billion bushels 26 Consumer surplus from billion to billion. 27 Producer surplus from billion to billion. 28 Total surplus from billion to billion.Consider the market for corn in the United States. We are going to use Excel to examine changes in consumer and producer surplus in a competitive market when the market is not in equilibrium. Suppose the demand and supply functions for com are as follows. QD 100 14.5 Qs 0 + 5.5 Where Q is bushels of com (in billions) and P is the market price per bushel. Using the template provided, enter the coefficients for demand and supply. When the market isn't in equilibrium, only the minimum of QD and Qs values will actually be sold. Once you have this set up, answer the following questions. MARKET DEMAND MARKET SUPPLY Coefficients Coefficients Intercept Intercept Price Pricec) Now increase the price from the equilibrium by $.25 two times. What happens to the market quantity, consumer, producer, and total surplus as you increase the price to a level higher than the equilibrium? Price increment = $0.25 QD Qs Q CS PS TS Price (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) (billions) Consumer surplus and producer surplus The market quantity and total surplus d) Explain the effect of changing the price away from the equilibrium on the market efficiency. The further away from the equilibrium, the total surplus in the market meaning the dead-weight loss