Lalit Patel
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Posted 5 year ago
What is elasticity of demand in Economics?
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Mitesh Sharma
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Posted 5 year ago Mitesh Sharma

Price elasticity of demand is a measure used in economics to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity demanded of a good or service to increase in its price when nothing but the price changes.

Nisha Nikam
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Posted 5 year ago Nisha Nikam

Price elasticity of demand is a measure of the responsiveness of consumers to a change in a product's cost. ... The formula for any calculation of demand elasticity is the percentage of change in the quantity that is in demand divided by the percentage change in the economic variable.

Chandni Dabral
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Posted 5 year ago Chandni Dabral

If a small change in prize causes people demand more or a lot less of the good, demand for the good is said to be elastic.