Total consumer surplus as area발음듣기
Total consumer surplus as area
And this right here, you could view this as either the demand curve for your orange stand or your marginal benefit curve, or really you could call it the willingness to pay, the first 100 pounds of oranges.발음듣기
But let's say you decide to set the price at $2, and you are able to sell 300 oranges in that week.발음듣기
And the way to think about consumer surplus is, how much benefit did they get above and beyond what they paid?발음듣기
So their benefit on that one pound, their benefit, or I should say their consumer surplus, is going to be $3.30 minus a $2.30.발음듣기
So that person who bought that 100th - not all the 100 pounds, just that 100th pound - got a consumer surplus of $3.30 minus $2, which is a $1.30 consumer surplus.발음듣기
So if you wanted to figure out the entire consumer surplus, well, you just have to do it for all of the pounds.발음듣기
And so to figure out the consumer surplus for that pound we said, OK, for that pound they were willing to pay $3.30.발음듣기
And so you could imagine if we wanted to find the total consumer surplus, what are we doing?발음듣기
Well, we're essentially just finding the area between our demand curve and this line where the price is equal to 2.발음듣기
And if you're familiar with calculus, you might know that you can actually make these things arbitrarily small.발음듣기
It doesn't matter so much if you have a linear demand curve, but if you had a non-linear demand curve then it would matter.발음듣기
You'd want to get smaller and smaller and smaller, or thinner and thinner and thinner rectangles, so you could get better and better approximations for the consumer surplus.발음듣기
But needless to say, what you're really doing - especially if you get unbelievably thin rectangles, and you have an unbelievably high number of them - you're really just estimating the area under the demand curve and above the price equals $2.발음듣기
And so if you want to know this consumer surplus - and I really want you to understand why this was.발음듣기
It was just how much more value that pound, whoever bought that pound, how much more value do they get relative to what they paid.발음듣기
So to really figure out the total consumer surplus, we just have to find this area of this blue area.발음듣기
And we can just use this as the area of a triangle, because this is a simple linear demand curve.발음듣기
So our area, the area between the demand curve and our price equals 2, is equal to 1/2 times base times height.발음듣기
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