Question
Increase or decrease in supply means:
  1. Change in supply due to change in its own price.
  2. Change in supply due to change in factors other than its own price.
  3. Both (a) and (b).
  4. None of the above.

Answer

  1. Change in supply due to change in factors other than its own price.

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