. Explain in your own words what is meant by the term ‘price
elasticity of demand’.
2. Why is it important for business managers to understand price
elasticity of demand?
3. When price elasticity of demand is greater than 1, we say
that the good is:
INELASTIC / ELASTIC / UNITARY ELASTIC / POSITIVELY ELASTIC
4. When price elasticity of demand is less than 1, we say that a
good is:
INELASTIC / ELASTIC / UNITARY ELASTIC / NEGATIVELY ELASTIC...
Given what you understand about the price elasticity of demand
and supply, explain how the proposed managed isolation fee
legislation will affect travel decisions of New Zealanders and NZ
permanent residents and how it will affect the airlines. Use
suitable diagrams to illustrate your answer.
Price Elasticity In your own words explain price elasticity.
Focus on explaining the difference between products that have
elastic demand and those that have inelastic demand. What types of
products typically have inelastic demand? Why? What types of
products typically have elastic demand? Why? For the following
products indicate if your demand for the product is elastic or
inelastic and why. Having a car Home cable/internet service (all
service providers have doubled their prices – elastic or
inelastic?) College courses...
You have determined that your firm’s own-price elasticity is
-1.5 and that your firm’s cross-price elasticity with a competitor
is 0.5. Last month your competitor increased prices by one percent.
Today, in response, your manager has proposed also increasing
prices by one percent. Your manager’s reasoning that by matching
the competitor’s price increase, your firm will increase revenue.
Would you support or refute your manager’s argument?
1. (i) How do you understand the four
levels of measurement and give your own example?
(ii) A company’s human resources
department recently selected a sample of fifteen people. They
compared the employees’ performance rating (based on a 100-point
scale) and the number of overtime hours the employees had worked in
the past six months. The following SPSS output were recorded.
Correlation
Rating
Hours
Rating
Pearson Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
1
.643***
.054
Hours Pearson Correlation
Sig....