What Is the Piece of Evidence Historians Have Been Able

question 13

Multiple Choice

What is the piece of evidence historians have been able to use to come to the conclusion that alcoholism was prevalent in France during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries?

• A)police reports of drunken and disorderly conduct arrests
• B)court reports of drunken and disorderly conduct convictions
• C)reports and letters from foreigners visiting the country
• D)the high number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol (one per fifty-four people)
• E)complaints from women's groups

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Definitions:

Price Elasticity

A gauge of the degree to which the amount of a good sought or offered adjusts when there's a change in its price.

Demand

The consumers' willingness and ability to purchase a product or service at a given price.

Cross Price Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded for one good to a change in the price of another good, indicating the degree of substitutability or complementarity between them.

Midpoint Method

The midpoint method is a technique used in economics to measure the elasticity of demand or supply, minimizing the bias in the response to price changes by using the average percentages of change in both quantity and price.