Definition, drawing and interpretation of demand and supply schedules and curves used to establish equilibrium price and sales in a market. Definition, drawing and interpretation of demand and supply schedules and curves used to identify disequilibrium prices and shortages (demand exceeding supply) and surpluses (supply exceeding demand).

How a market system works; including buyers, sellers, allocation of scarce resources, market equilibrium, and market disequilibrium. Establishing that the economic problem creates three key questions about determining resource allocation – what to produce, how, and for whom. How the price mechanism provides answers to these key allocation questions.