At $5 Per Cup, Customers Will Buy 8 Cups of Coffee

question 164

Multiple Choice

At $5 per cup, customers will buy 8 cups of coffee per week.At a price of $3, consumers are willing to buy 12 cups per week.The elasticity of the market demand curve for coffee between P = $5 and P = $3 (dropping all minus signs) is

• A)0.40.
• B)1.0
• C)1.25.
• D)0.80.

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