Elasticity Is

question 6

Multiple Choice

Elasticity is

• A)a measure of how much buyers and sellers respond to changes in market conditions.
• B)the study of how the allocation of resources affects economic well-being.
• C)the maximum amount that a buyer will pay for a good.
• D)the value of everything a seller must give up to produce a good.

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Definitions:

Production

The process of combining various material inputs and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how) in order to make something for consumption (the output).

Supply Curves

Graphical representations showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity of that good that suppliers are willing and able to sell, holding other factors constant.

Long Run

A period in economics in which all factors of production and costs are variable, allowing all inputs to be adjusted.

Perfectly Inelastic

A situation where demand does not change at all in response to changes in price.