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So here we're given a demand curve and a supply curve, right? a supply curve is upward sloping plus 6q.
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Great.
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So we need to think about what price producers get after the tax.
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So let me try to sketch this to illustrate quantity and price.
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We have a demand curve that starts at 100 and slopes down.
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We have a supply curve that starts at 20 and slopes up.
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And now we are taxing the buyers, right? so the idea here is that the demand falls by eight, the amount of the tax.
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Because if you know that when you buy this, you have to pay eight to the government, you're willing to pay eight less to the producer, right? because the total value of the good to you has not changed.
00:48
So the new demand curve minus eight, right, would be p prime is equal to 92 minus 2q...