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If price elasticity of demand for a product is .5, this means a. a change in price changes demand by 50 percent. b. a 1 percent increase in quantity sold is associated with a .5 percent fall in price. c. a 1 percent increase in quantity sold is associated with a 2 percent fall in price. d. a .5 percent change in price will cause a .5 percent change in quantity sold,

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If price elasticity of demand for a product is .5, this means a. a change in price changes demand by 50 percent. b. a 1 percent increase in quantity sold is associated with a .5 percent fall in price. c. a 1 percent increase in quantity sold is associated with a 2 percent fall in price. d. a .5 percent change in price will cause a .5 percent change in quantity sold,

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The correct answer is b. a 1 percent increase in quantity sold is associated with a .5 percent fall in price.

Price elasticity of demand is a measure of the relationship between a change in the quantity demanded of a particular good and a change in its price. If the price elasticity of demand is .5, it means that for every 1 percent increase in price, the quantity demanded decreases by .5 percent. This is an inelastic demand situation where changes in price have a less than proportionate effect on the quantity demanded.

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