A Perfectly Elastic Demand Curve

question 118

Multiple Choice

A perfectly elastic demand curve

• A) shows that a slight change in income will lead to a large reduction in price.
• B) is a horizontal line drawn across from the quantity axis.
• C) shows that a slight increase in price will reduce quantity demanded to zero.
• D) has a slope of -1.

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