percentage change in quantity demanded E = 0.5 (in absolute value) percentage change in price According to the elasticity computation for popcorn of 0.5, by how much would popcorn sales fall if the price increased by: a. 40 percent? b. 30 percent? Degree of Elasticity Relatively elastic (E > 1) Airline travel, long run Estimate 2.4 Fresh fish 2.2 2 New cars, short run 1.5 Roughly unitary elastic (E = 1) Private education 1.1 Radios and televisions 1.2 Shoes 0.9 Relatively inelastic (E <1) Cigarettes 0.4 Coffee 0.3 Gasoline, short run 0.2 Long-distance telephone calls 0.1 a. By how much would coffee sales decline if the price of coffee increased 10 percent? b. If your local coffee shop raised its coffee prices by the same amount (10 percent), would sales decline by more, less, or the same amount as calculated in part a?

percentage change in quantity demanded E = 0.5 (in absolute value) percentage change in price According to the elasticity computation for popcorn of 0.5, by how much would popcorn sales fall if the price increased by: a. 40 percent? b. 30 percent? Degree of Elasticity Relatively elastic (E > 1) Airline travel, long run Estimate 2.4 Fresh fish 2.2 2 New cars, short run 1.5 Roughly unitary elastic (E = 1) Private education 1.1 Radios and televisions 1.2 Shoes 0.9 Relatively inelastic (E <1) Cigarettes 0.4 Coffee 0.3 Gasoline, short run 0.2 Long-distance telephone calls 0.1 a. By how much would coffee sales decline if the price of coffee increased 10 percent? b. If your local coffee shop raised its coffee prices by the same amount (10 percent), would sales decline by more, less, or the same amount as calculated in part a?

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Chapter3: Demand Analysis

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