Multiple Choice Quizzes with Answer in English (Page: 410)
You are the manager of a popular hat company. You know that the advertising elasticity of demand for your product is 0.25. How much will you have to increase advertising in order to increase demand by 5%?
If the income elasticity for lobster is.6, a 25% increase in income will lead to a
If the cross-price elasticity between ketchup and hamburgers is -2.5, a 2% increase in the price of ketchup will lead to a
If quantity demanded for sneakers falls by 6% when price increases 20% we know that the absolute value of the own-price elasticity of sneakers is
The own-price elasticity of demand for apples is -1.5. If the price of apples falls by 6%, what will happen to the quantity of apples demanded?
The demand for good X has been estimated by QX d = 6 – 2PX + 5PY. Suppose that good X sells at $3 per unit and good Y sels flor $2 per unit. Calculate the own price elasticity.
Assume that the price elasticity of demand is -0.75 for a certain firm’s product. If the firm lowers price, the firm’s managers can expect total revenue to
If the demand function for a particular good is Q = 20 – 8P, then the price elasticity of demand (in absolute value) at a price of $1 is
The demand for which of the following commodities is likely to be more price inelastic?
When the price of sugar was “low”, consumers in the United States spent a total of $3 billion annually on its consumption. When the price doubled, consumer expenditures actually increased to $4 billion annually. This indicates that
The cross-price elasticity of demand for textbooks and copies of old exams is -3.5. If the price of copies of old exams increase by 10 percent, the quantity demanded of textbooks will
The elasticity of demand for gasoline has been estimated to be 2.0, and the standard error is 1.0. The upper and lower bounds on the 95 percent confidence interval for the elasticity of demand for gasoline are
The demand for video recorders has been estimated to linear and given by the demand relation QV = 145 – 3.2PV + 7M – 0.95PF – 39PM, where QV is the quantity of video recorders, Pf denotes the price of video recorder film, PM is the price of attending a movie, PV is the price of video recorders, and M is income. Based on the estimated demand equation we can conclude:
If the demand function for a particular good is Q = 25 – 10P, then the price elasticity of demand (in absolute value) at a price of $1 is
The cross-price advertising of demand for books and magazines is -2.0. If the price of magazines decreases by 10 percent, the quantity demanded of books will
The short run response of quantity demanded to a change in price is usually:
The cross price elasticity of demand between goods X and Y is -3.5. If the price of X decreases by 7%, the quantity demanded of Y will: