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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
Reference: Ref 6-14
(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure The Demand for Shirts. Using
the midpoint method, the price elasticity of demand for the segment CD is:
147. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Demand for Shirts Referen...
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
Reference: Ref 6-14
(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure The Demand for Shirts. Using
the midpoint method, the price elasticity of demand for the segment DE is:
148. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Demand for Shirts Referen...
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
Reference: Ref 6-14
(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure The Demand for Shirts. Using
the midpoint method, the price elasticity of demand for the segment EF is:
149. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Demand for Shirts Referen...
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
Reference: Ref 6-14
(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure The Demand for Shirts. The price
elasticity of demand, using the midpoint method, for the segment FG is:
150. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Demand for Shirts Referen...
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
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(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure. The Demand for Shirts.At a
price of $40, total revenue is:
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
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(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure. At a price of $30, total revenue
is ______, and at a price of $10, total revenue is ________.
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
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(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure. Total revenue is maximized if
the price is
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Figure: The Demand for Shirts
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(Figure: The Demand for Shirts) Look at the figure. If the price is below _____,
demand is inelastic.
154. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Market for e-Books Refere...
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Figure: The Market for e-Books
Reference: Ref 6-15
(Figure: The Market for e-Books) Look at the figure The Market for e-Books. Which
of the following statements is correct?
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Figure: The Market for e-Books
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(Figure: The Market for e-Books) If the price of e-Books decreases from $6 to $4,
total revenue changes from _______ to _______, which means that demand is
_________.
156. Multiple Choice: Figure: The Market for e-Books Refere...
Question Figure: The Market for e-Books
Reference: Ref 6-15
(Figure: The Market for e-Books) If the price of e-Books increases from $6 to $8,
total revenue _____________ which means that demand is _________.
Answer increases; elastic
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157. Multiple Choice: The price elasticity of demand along ...
Question The price elasticity of demand along a demand curve with a constant slope:
Answer is equal to the slope.
158. Multiple Choice: The price elasticity of demand along ...
Question The price elasticity of demand along a demand curve with a constant slope:
Answer is equal to the slope.
159. Multiple Choice: On a linear demand curve:
Question On a linear demand curve:
demand is elastic at low prices.
160. Multiple Choice: A linear demand curve:
Question A linear demand curve:
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Answer has a constant price elasticity of demand.
161. Multiple Choice: On a linear demand curve, the price e...
Question On a linear demand curve, the price elasticity of demand at higher prices will be:
Answer price-inelastic.
162. Multiple Choice: On a linear demand curve, demand at l...
Question On a linear demand curve, demand at lower prices will:
have negative price elasticity.
163. Multiple Choice: As you move down a linear demand curv...
Question As you move down a linear demand curve, the price elasticity of demand will:
Answer increase.
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164. Multiple Choice: The demand for strawberry ice cream t...
Question The demand for strawberry ice cream tends to be relatively price-elastic because:
for most people there are many close substitutes for strawberry ice cream and
because it costs so little.
165. Multiple Choice: Which of the following is not a facto...
Question Which of the following is not a factor in determining the price elasticity of demand?
Answer the number of available substitutes
166. Multiple Choice: If a good is a necessity with few sub...
Question If a good is a necessity with few substitutes, then demand will tend to:
Answer be more price-elastic.
167. Multiple Choice: If a good has a price inelastic deman...
Question If a good has a price inelastic demand, then which of the following is not likely to
be characteristic of this good?
Answer The good is a necessity and is relatively unimportant in the household budget.
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168. Multiple Choice: There are several close substitutes f...
Question There are several close substitutes for Bayer aspirin but fewer substitutes for a
complete medical examination. Therefore, you would expect the demand for:
Answer medical exams to be more price-elastic.
169. Multiple Choice: If the price of emergency visits to t...
Question If the price of emergency visits to the doctor were to rise, we would expect:
Answer a significant decline in the number of emergency visits to the doctor.
170. Multiple Choice: If someone did not regard health care...
Question If someone did not regard health care as very important, often using home
remedies and other substitutes, compared to other people, his or her demand curve
for health care would most likely be ________ over the relevant range of prices for
health care.
vertical
171. Multiple Choice: The price elasticity of a good will t...
Question The price elasticity of a good will tend to be larger:
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172. Multiple Choice: The demand for strawberry ice cream t...
Question The demand for strawberry ice cream tends to be relatively price-elastic because:
173. Multiple Choice: Determining the price elasticity of d...
Question Determining the price elasticity of demand involves all of the following factors
except:
174. Multiple Choice: If a good is a necessity with few sub...
Question If a good is a necessity with few substitutes, then demand will tend to:
Answer be more price-elastic.
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175. Multiple Choice: If a good is a luxury item that looms...
Question If a good is a luxury item that looms large in the household budget, then demand
will tend to:
176. Multiple Choice: An important determinant of the price...
Question An important determinant of the price elasticity of demand is the:
quantity of the good supplied.
177. Multiple Choice: An important determinant of the price...
Question An important determinant of the price elasticity of demand is the:
Answer price of related goods.
178. Multiple Choice: Other things being equal, the price e...
Question Other things being equal, the price elasticity of demand for a product will be lower:
Answer if there are many substitutes available.
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179. Multiple Choice: There are several close substitutes f...
Question There are several close substitutes for Quaker State oil but fewer substitutes for a
complete checkup of your car's engine. We can expect the demand for:
Answer Quaker State oil to be more price-inelastic.
180. Multiple Choice: An important determinant of the price...
Question An important determinant of the price elasticity of demand is the:
extent of government regulation.
181. Multiple Choice: A newspaper typically consumes a smal...
Question A newspaper typically consumes a smaller fraction of a consumer's budget than a
home entertainment system. Therefore, you would expect the demand for:
the two to be equally price-elastic.
182. Multiple Choice: The demand for textbooks is price ine...
Question The demand for textbooks is price inelastic. Which of the following would explain
this?
Answer Many alternative textbooks can be used as substitutes.
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183. Multiple Choice: After you graduate from college, you ...
Question After you graduate from college, you open a business selling computers. Many
other businesses in your city sell similar computers. Based on this information, the
price elasticity of demand for the computers that your business sells will be:
Answer 1.
184. Multiple Choice: The price elasticity of demand for a ...
Question The price elasticity of demand for a good such as water is likely to be very low
because:
the share of income spent on water is large.
185. Multiple Choice: The price elasticity of a good will t...
Question The price elasticity of a good will tend to be larger:
if the share of income spent on the good is small.
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186. Multiple Choice: Which of the following goods is likel...
Question Which of the following goods is likely to have the largest price elasticity of
demand?
Answer a bicycle
187. Multiple Choice: A good is likely to have an inelastic...
Question A good is likely to have an inelastic demand curve if:
Answer the consumer has significant time to respond to the price change.
188. Multiple Choice: We predict the long-run price elastic...
Question We predict the long-run price elasticity of demand of gasoline would be ________
the short-run price elasticity of demand of gasoline.
Answer less than
189. Multiple Choice: If a good is very inexpensive, but it...
Question If a good is very inexpensive, but it is a necessity, you would predict that demand
for the good is:
Answer is price-elastic.
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190. Multiple Choice: In general, we would predict demand f...
Question In general, we would predict demand for Gala apples to be:
191. Multiple Choice: The cross-price elasticity of electri...
Question The cross-price elasticity of electricity with respect to the price of natural gas has
been estimated as being equal to 0.2. This implies that:
Answer natural gas and electricity are both normal goods.
192. Multiple Choice: For which of the following is the cro...
Question For which of the following is the cross-price elasticity of demand most likely a large
positive number?
Answer hockey pucks and hockey sticks
193. Multiple Choice: Suppose the cross-price elasticity of...
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