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4. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of charge in quantity demanded due to change in price. In case of elastic demand, change in price results in large change in quantity demanded and thus increase in price leads to fall in revenue.
But when demand in inelastic, increase in price leads to small decrease in quantity demanded but large increase in revenue.
5. Absolute advantage is The total endowment of any particular resource in a country. For example, Middle East countries have large oil reserves. But this is not the best measure
6. Absolute advantage reveals a country's total resource endorwment While comparative advantage reveals comparative quantity of a resource. It makes use of opportunity cost.
For eg, US has large wheat as well as maize reserves. Now to trade, it is important to know whether receipient coinrty is deficient in wheat or not. A country decided to trade in which it has comparartive advantage.
7. In economics, "scarcity refers to - "there are limited resources which have alternate uses. Opportunity cost is the cost of next best alternative which has been forgone