Question: The vertical demand curve for a commodity shows that this commodity is
Options:
Highly elastic
Perfectly inelastic
Unit elastic
Perfectly elastic
📌 🔑Key Points:
-The formula for calculating elasticity is: Price Elasticity of Demand= percent change in quantity/percent change in price
-According to the question price of a good falls from Rs. 20 per unit to Rs. 15 per unit, which means the percentage change in price is 25% and demand rises by 25 percent.
-By the formula price elasticity of demand= 25%/25%= 1.
Additional Information
✏️ Price elasticity of demand:
-Price elasticity measures the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price.
-It is computed as the percentage change in quantity demanded—or supplied—divided by the percentage change in price.
-Elasticity can be described as elastic—or very responsive—unit elastic, or inelastic—not very responsive.
-Elastic demand or supply curves indicate that the quantity demanded or supplied response to price changes in a greater than proportional manner.
-An inelastic demand or supply curve is one where a given percentage change in price will cause a smaller percentage change in quantity demanded or supplied.
-Unitary elasticity means that a given percentage change in price leads to an equal percentage change in quantity demanded or supplied.