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When the Price of Toothpaste Increases by 15 Percent, the Quantity

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When the price of toothpaste increases by 15 percent, the quantity of toothpaste demanded falls by 30 percent. Calculate the price elasticity of demand. Is the demand for toothpaste elastic, inelastic, or unit elastic?


Definitions:

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Monitor

A device or individual that observes, checks, and keeps a continuous record of a process or situation.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, it allows the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Limited-Capacity

The concept that there is an upper limit on the amount of information or number of tasks that an individual can process or perform at one time.

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