Scenario 5-2 Milk Has an Inelastic Demand, and Steak Has an Elastic

question 42

Multiple Choice

Scenario 5-2
Milk has an inelastic demand, and steak has an elastic demand. Suppose that a mysterious increase in bovine infertility decreases both the population of dairy cows and the population of beef cattle by 50 percent.
-Refer to Scenario 5-2. The change in equilibrium quantity will be

• A)greater in the milk market than in the steak market.
• B)greater in the steak market than in the milk market.
• C)the same in the milk and steak markets.
• D)unknown without more information.

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