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Students will complete the interactive activity about inelasticity. Students will be asked which of the two items would be the most inelastic [gasoline], and what factors make it more inelastic than restaurant meals [it is a want, not many quality substitutes and you must make the decision now as you are out of fuel.
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Inelastic items usually are basic elements of everyday life. Staple foods usually have very low elasticities because there are few substitutes. (The previously mentioned economics textbook lists the price elasticity of potatoes as 0.3.) Goods with few substitutes also tend to have low elasticities.
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Inelastic items usually are basic elements of everyday life. Staple foods usually have very low elasticities because there are few substitutes. (The previously mentioned economics textbook lists the price elasticity of potatoes as 0.3.) Goods with few substitutes also tend to have low elasticities.
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; VII. Demand and Supply ... 1. Expenditure and quantity sold; price as the ratio of the demand to the supply. ... 3. Examples of elastic, inelastic, and unit elastic demand.
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As the price of luxury items increase, demand for items such as luxury cars and stereo systems usually decline because these goods are not essential and can be delayed. However, for inelastic items such as food and shelter, if the price rises, the need still exists and consumers will continue to make these purchases...
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Elasticity (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In economics, elasticity is the ratio of the percent change in one variable to the percent change in another variable. It is a tool for measuring the responsiveness of a function to changes in param...
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Their logic was twofold: hit the rich with a greater share of the tax burden, and generate plenty of new revenue, since demand for such luxury items is price inelastic. Taxes on inelastic items are the most efficient way to raise revenues, since little distortion of consumption takes place.
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Gasoline and food are crazy expensive, and the worst culprits in food are inelastic items, like milk or breakfast cereal. Fancy crap like chocolates seem to be a little more affordable, relatively speaking.
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