when gold is relatively cheap, people will buy lots of gold jewellery, when the price of gold goes up, people switch to silver jewellery...sowhen the price goes up, less people will want to buy - cause the demand is "sensitive" to the price...so demand is ELASTIC...
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An elastic item benefits from price decreases whereas an inelastic item does not.
when price changes it is called inelastic demand and when quantity of demand change that is called elastic of demand.