If Consumers Are Not Price Sensitive in Purchasing a Consumer

question 45

Multiple Choice

If consumers are not price sensitive in purchasing a consumer product such as Smucker's Jams,a 10% increase in the retail price of strawberry jam because of a 10% increase in the cost of strawberries from farmers will not affect demand for jam. Thus,the derived demand indicates that the demand for strawberries is:

• A)elastic
• B)inelastic
• C)unpredictable
• D)unknown
• E)none of the above

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