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  • 1
  • The price of a bus ride decreases, but the total revenue of the bus company does not change. The demand for bus rides is _____________________.

    unit elastic
    inelastic
    elastic
    perfectly inelastic


  • 2
  • Marvin loves chocolate truffles. As the price of a chocolate truffle increases from $1 to $2 to $3, Marvin continues to buy a dozen chocolate truffles every week. Marvin's demand for chocolate truffles is _______________.

    elastic
    perfectly inelastic
    illustrated by a horizontal demand curve
    unit elastic


  • 3
  • Dan sells newspapers. Dan says that a 10 percent increase in the price of a newspaper will decrease the quantity of newspapers demanded by 8 percent. According to Dan, the demand for newspapers is ______________.

    perfectly elastic
    elastic
    inelastic
    unit elastic


  • 4
  • When demand is __________, a decrease in price _____________ total revenue.

    unit elastic; increases
    elastic; decreases
    elastic; increases
    inelastic; increases


  • 5
  • Webster Dictionaries and Oxford Dictionaries are almost perfect substitutes. The price elasticity of demand for Webster Dictionaries ____________________.

    is 1
    is almost infinity
    depends on the complements for dictionaries
    is almost zero


  • 6
  • Blue pens and black pens are close substitutes. The cross elasticity of demand for black pens with respect to the price of blue pens is ________________.

    equal to 1
    zero
    positive
    negative


  • 7
  • If the cross elasticity of demand between goods X and Y is positive and between goods X and Z is negative, then X and Y are ______________ and X and Z are ________________.

    price inelastic; complements
    price inelastic; income elastic
    substitutes; complements
    complements; substitutes


  • 8
  • Of the following goods, the North American demand for ______________ has the largest income elasticity of demand.

    rice
    Mediterranean cruises
    newspapers
    compact cars


  • 9
  • As Mary's income increases by 20 percent, her demand for tickets to National Hockey League games increases by 10 percent. Mary's demand for tickets is _______; for Mary, hockey tickets are __________ good.

    inelastic; an inferior
    elastic; a normal
    inelastic; a normal
    elastic; an inferior


  • 10
  • The supply of lettuce in the short run will be ___________ than the supply in the long run and ______________ than the supply today.

    more elastic; more elastic
    less elastic; less elastic
    less elastic; more elastic
    more elastic; less elastic


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