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If the price elasticity of demand for a good is 0.8,then which of the following events is consistent with a 4 percent decrease in the quantity of the good demanded?


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Pharmaceutical Industry

The sector of the economy that discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical products for use as medications.

Marginal Cost

The augmentation in complete expenditure resulting from the manufacture of one more unit of a good or service.

Economies Of Scale

The cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale.

Law Of Diminishing Returns

An economic principle stating that adding more of one factor of production, while holding others constant, will at a certain point yield lower incremental per-unit returns.

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