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- Suppose that clothes workers at a certain factory accept a pay cut of $3 per hour.
(a) Draw a graph to show how this would affect the market for clothes.
(b) Why does this shift occur? How does that affect the
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We have given that the clothes workers accept a pay cut of $3 per hour. This implies that the wage rate of workers decreases.
The workers are one of the inputs in cloth factories to produce clothes. When the cost of input decreases then the cost of production decrease and this will increase the supply curve.
Let the demand and supply curves of cloth be linear.
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