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Most economists report the elasticity of demand as:
a. the absolute value of the actual number.
b. a negative number, since price and quantity demanded move in opposite directions.
c. a percentage, since both the numerator and denominator are percentages.
d. a dollar amount, since we are measuring the change in price.

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9. ___________________ Elasticity at a specific price or point on a demand curve.

10. ___________________ A measure of how responsive quantity demanded is to a change in income, all other things constant.

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The following table shows price elasticity of demand for several produce items. Apples price elasticity = | -1.05 | = 1.05 Strawberries price elasticity = | -0.50 | = 0.50 Lettuce price elasticity = | -0.15 | = 0.15 Tomatoes price elasticity = | -0.11 | = 0.11

Question 1: Elastic and Inelastic Demand

Which product above has the most price-elastic demand and would therefore show the greatest increase in quantity demanded if the price were lowered?

Question 2: Total Revenues to the Supplier

For which product(s) would a 1% drop in price cause a decrease is total revenues for the farmers who grow and sell it, if their revenues were not subsidized as the quantity demanded increases? List all of them.

Question 3: Calculating elasticity

Corn is presently $4.00 per bushel. If we reduce the price by 2%, to $3.92 per bushel, we observe that the quantity demanded increases by 1.3%. What is the price elasticity of demand for corn? (Convert the percentages to decimals before computing to avoid confusion interpreting the answer, and express the answer as an absolute value, that is, as a positive number.)

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