ECON102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inferior Good, Normal Good, Demand Curve
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The price elasicity of demand is a units-free measure of the responsiveness of the quanity demanded of a good to a change in its price when all other inluences on buying plans remain the same. It is the magnitude, or absolute value, or the price elasicity of demand that tells us how responsive the quanity demanded is. Perfectly inelasic demand means that the quanity demanded remains constant when the price changes and the price elasicity of demand is zero. Unit elasic demand means that the percentage change in quanity demanded equals the percentage change in price and the price elasicity is 1. Inelasic demand means that the percentage change in the quanity demanded is less than the percentage change in the price and the price elasicity is between 0 and 1. Perfectly elasic demand means that the quanity demanded changes by an ininitely large percentage in response to a iny price change and the price elasicity is ininity.