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Is price elasticity of demand considered elastic or inelastic with food?
price elasticity of food would be inelastic, as there are no substitutes and food is a necessity.
What are examples of five products whose demand is price elastic and five products whose demand is price inelastic?
narcotics, food, gas
Products whose demand is price elastic and price inelastic?
product whose demand is elastic are jewells(gold,silver,platinum,dimond,etc) fuel(petrol,disel,kerosene,etc) sugar detergents soaps(washing and bathing) products whose demand is inelastic are salt fruits food and vegetables
What type of demand does salt and television and food grains have?
I would say that salt and food grains have an inelastic demand and television has an elastic demand.
When a product is known to have an 'elastic demand' it means?
When a product has elastic demand it means that a change in price will have a subsequent change in price. An example of an elastic good is a fuji apple. If the prices of fuji apples increase, then consumers will buy a substitute, like a pear instead. Say we are given a good, like food (in general), this product would be inelastic. Even a large increase in price would could little change in demand because people need this good.
Is price elasticity of demand considered elastic or inelastic with food?
price elasticity of food would be inelastic, as there are no substitutes and food is a necessity.
What are examples of five products whose demand is price elastic and five products whose demand is price inelastic?
narcotics, food, gas
What Distinction between price elastic and price inelastic?
Elasticity is "a measure of responsiveness that tells us how a dependent variable such as a quantity responds to a change in an independent variable such as price." Basically, that means that elastic product's demand is affected by price and an inelastic product's demand is unaffected by price.For example: if a product is elastic, the price goes up and demand goes down, or the price goes down and demand goes up. Examples are electronics, candy and junk food, and even cars.If a product is inelastic, the demand will stay the same no matter the price. Examples are medical supplies.
Products whose demand is price elastic and price inelastic?
product whose demand is elastic are jewells(gold,silver,platinum,dimond,etc) fuel(petrol,disel,kerosene,etc) sugar detergents soaps(washing and bathing) products whose demand is inelastic are salt fruits food and vegetables
What type of demand does salt and television and food grains have?
I would say that salt and food grains have an inelastic demand and television has an elastic demand.
When a product is known to have an 'elastic demand' it means?
When a product has elastic demand it means that a change in price will have a subsequent change in price. An example of an elastic good is a fuji apple. If the prices of fuji apples increase, then consumers will buy a substitute, like a pear instead. Say we are given a good, like food (in general), this product would be inelastic. Even a large increase in price would could little change in demand because people need this good.
Is rice production consider as Inelastic demand or elastic demand?
Production itself cannot have inelastic demand, only supply. I will look at both cases. The demand for rice as a good is very inelastic. This is because people will buy rice no matter the price, because in many places of the world, it is their main source of food. Recently rice as skyrocketed in price (resulting in riots in places), but people still buy it. This is mainly out of necessity, but alternatives are emerging. The elasticity of supply is also inelastic, as we are looking at a huge rise in prices, but a very small change in production.
What is elasticity of demands?
How much demand of a product goes up or down depending on the price. Elastic demand changes greatly as price changes - for normal goods, as the price goes up, demand drops. Demand for things like non-staple food - like cookies - is elastic. If cookies cost 50 cents a box, there might be huge demand for them. But if that price goes to $10 a box, if the price were elastic, the demand would be much lower. For an inelastic demand curve, people's demand changes little as prices change. THese are goods for which there are few substitutes. Things like gasoline have relatively inelastic demand curves - people will slow down their use/demand of gasoline a bit as prices go up, but a certain level of gasoline consumption is going to exist regardless of price. People are simply going to pay what they have to to get it.
If because a modest price increase has little or no effect the demand for the product is?
If a modest price increase has little no no effect on the demand it means that the product is inelastic. Inelastic goods are those that people will need no matter what the price is, such as most medications, and food as a whole (not specific brands). Elastic goods are defined as goods were the demand fluctuates as the price fluctuates. These are different brands of foods (If Dole starts to charge more for apple juice consumers will switch to Tropicana orange juice.)
What is an example of a product that is not elastic?
A product that is "not elastic" is considered "inelelastic." More precisely, we say that DEMAND for the product is elastic or inelastic (a good example of an"elastic product" is a rubber band, but that is to say nothing of its demand.Inelastic goods tend to fall into a few categories. They may be goods which have few close substitutes. This means that broadly defined goods tend to have less elastic demand than narrowly defined goods. For example, "vegetables" have less elastic demand than "broccoli," because if the price of broccoli goes up, we can easily switch to cauliflower or asparagus. Likewise, "vegetables" have more elastic demand than "food." When vegetables are more costly, we can stock up on grains or fruits (but probably won't switch to more meats, since they tend to be more expensive already). If the price of food goes up, we will simply pay it if we can. Thus, "food" is a relatively inelastic good.Another category of goods with inelastic demand is goods whose cost represents a small portion of our budgets. Salt is a great example. If the cost of salt doubles from $1 to $2, we are unlikely to cut our consumption in half. We may not even notice.
Define elastic demand?
Elasticity is the percentage change in one variable resulting from a percentage change in another variable. Thus, the price elasticity of demand is the percentage change in quantity demanded of a good resulting from a percent change in its price. Elastic demand means that the percentage change in quantity demanded of the good is greater than the percentage increase in price. This means that the demand for a good is very sensitive relative to price. Therefore, if the price increases by one dollar the quantity demanded for that good will decrease by a lot and if the price decreases by one dollar the quantity demanded for that good will increase by a lot. The determinants of price elasticity of demand are: substitutes of the good, percentage of income the good's price, and the need of the good. Substitutes are other goods that have the same or similar function to the particular good; if there are many substitutes then the price will be elastic in which the primary good becomes too expensive consumers will switch their demand to a close substitute, and if there are not many substitutes the price will be inelastic in which the primary good becomes very expensive consumers will have to buy that good no matter what. If the price of the good is a large percent of the consumer's income the elasticity of demand will be high, since the consumer will not want to spend the majority of their income on one good. If the good is a necessity, for example food, then people will have to buy it no matter the price therefore it will be very inelastic. If the good is a luxury good like a yacht then the demand elasticity will be very elastic.
What products are elastic?
It depends a great deal on how widely you define the product. For example, the demand for "food" is completely inelastic, since there are no substitutes for "food". However, demand for apples will be far more elastic than the demand for food, since if the price of apples increases people can switch quite easily to a cheaper fruit. It is difficult to generalise what items are elastic, since not all items within the same group have equal "value" - brand loyalty for example will decrease elasticity for certain items. This means that, if I were to say that demand for baked beans was elastic, you could point out that Heinz baked beans experience far lower levels of price elasticity than other brands of baked beans. However, generally (very generally), unbranded/supermarket branded food items, when not defined too widely, will experience an elastic "price elasticity". Contrary to many expectations, fuel actually does seem to be price elastic - at least, to a certain level. Even though there are very few good substitutes for petrol etc... consumption does decrease when prices are raised.
