Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:Elastic demand or supply curves indicate that the quantity demanded or supplied responds to price changes in
a greater than proportional manner.
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Transcribed Image Text:Elasticity can be described as elastic or very responsive; unit elastic or inelastic -not very responsive.
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The elasticity of demand/ supply measures the responsiveness/ sensitivity of the quantity demanded/ supplied with respect to the price.
If the demand or supply curve is elastic it would imply that a change in quantity demanded/ supplied is more than a change in price.
Hence, The above statement is true
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