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Define the price elasticity of demand? What information does it
provide? How is it calculated?
Define...
- Define the price elasticity of demand? What information does it
provide? How is it calculated?
- Define the income elasticity of demand? What information does
it provide? How is it calculated?
- Define the cross-price elasticity of demand? What information
does it provide? How is it calculated?
- What is total revenue? How is it calculated?
- Define elastic, inelastic, and unitary elasticity means. How
are these related to total revenue? Explain your answers.
- With respect to the price elasticity of demand, construct a
graph using the data in Figure1. Illustrate the ranges on the
demand curve that indicate elastic, inelastic, and unitary
elasticity. Explain your answers. Enter non-numerical responses in
the same worksheet using textboxes.
- Calculate the total revenue for each level of demand and post
into the table, Figure 1. (Copy and paste this table into the
Microsoft Word document that will form part of your
submission.)
- Using the midpoints formula presented in the textbook,
calculate the price elasticity coefficient for each price level,
starting with the coefficient for the $4 to $6 level. For each
coefficient, indicate each type of elasticity: elastic demand,
inelastic demand, or unitary demand. Post your answers into the
table, Figure 1.
- Assume that the income of consumers changes by 10%, and as a
result the quantity demanded for Good A changes by 8%. What is the
income elasticity of demand for Good A? What does this mean for
your company?
- Assume that the price of competing Good B decreases by 5% and
as a result, the quantity demand for Good A decreases by 8%. What
is the cross-price elasticity for your product? What type of goods
are Good A and Good B?
Figure 1: The Demand Schedule for
Barbeque Dinners
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Price
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Quantity Demanded
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Total Revenue
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Elasticity Coefficient
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Elastic or Inelastic
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$4
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100
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6
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80
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8
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60
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10
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40
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12
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20
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14
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1
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