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What is meant by inelastic demand?

Give the meaning of inelastic demand.

What is inelastic demand?

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When a large change in the price does not bring so much change in the demand, the demand is said to be inelastic. In this situation, percentage change in demand is lesser than the percentage change in price.

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पाठ 4: Elasticity of Demand - TEST YOURSELF QUESTIONS [पृष्ठ ७२]

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Demand curve and Supply curve.


If due to fall in the price of good X, demand for good Y rises, the two goods are : (Choose the correct alternative)

a. Substitutes
b. Complements
c. Not related
d. Competitive


Give reason or Explain the following statement :

Demand for habitually used goods is inelastic.


 Distinguish between :

 Individual demand schedule and Market demand schedule.


fill in the blank with appropriate alternatives given in the bracket: 

 Demand for salt is ___________. 


Explain the following concepts or give definitions. 

Demand 


Fill in the blank using appropriate alternatives given below

The demand for perishable goods is _______


State whether the following statement is true or false. Give reasons for your answer :
X and Y are complementary goods. A fall in the price of Y will result in a rise in the price of X.


From the set of statements given in Column A and Column B, choose the correct pair of statement:

Column A Column B
1. Reduction of pollution (a) Microeconomics
2. Problems due to unemployment (b) Microeconomics
3. Shift in the demand curve (c) Microeconomics
4. Government expenditure on building of roads (d) Microeconomics

Identify the correct pair of items from the following Columns I and II:

Column I  Column II
(1) Budget Line (a) Normal goods
(2) Bajra (b) Inferior goods
(3) Consumer equilibrium (c) Luxurious goods
(4) Elastic Demand (d) M = Px*x + py*y

Read the following news report and answer the Q.97-Q.100 on the basis of the same:

The quantity of a commodity that a consumer is willing to buy and is able to afford, given the prices of goods and the consumer's tastes and preferences is called demand for the commodity. Whenever one or more of these variables change, the quantity of the good Chosen by the consumer is likely to change as well. The relation between the consumer's optimal choice of the quantity of a good and its price is very important and this relation is called the demand function. Thus, the consumer's demand function for a good gives the amount of the good that the consumer chooses at different levels of its price when the other things remain.

In which of the following cases there will be leftward shift in demand?


Read the case study and answer the questions 97 to 100:

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage company, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The first company that conducted its operation in the soft drink industry was Coca-Cola. It is the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage company serving more than 1.8 billion consumers daily in more than 200 countries. It has a portfolio of more than 3,500 (more than 800 no or low-calorie) products. However, the company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola which was originally intended to be a patented medicine invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola products can be termed as normal goods and in August 2019 Coca-Cola introduced a new product into the market, that is, zero sugar where the demand has increased for the product in the market.

According to the council of the Australian Food Technology Association and Institute of Food Science and Technology, the Australian nonalcoholic beverages industry has been growing steadily, with a 2.3 percent increase in overall production in the year 2000 which amounts to 2.25 billion liters. However, in the re~ent years, sales of customary carbonated soft drinks have dropped as more and more customers become health conscious and move away from high-calorie sugary drinks. Soft Carbonated drinks. and other alcohol-free beverage manufacturers have also sensed the effects of intensifying competition from private-label soft drink makers. Nevertheless, sales of greater value energy and sports drinks have driven profit generation in the industry.

The demand. for coca-cola has ______


Read the case study and answer the questions 97 to 100:

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage company, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The first company that conducted its operation in the soft drink industry was Coca-Cola. It is the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage company serving more than 1.8 billion consumers daily in more than 200 countries. It has a portfolio of more than 3,500 (more than 800 no or low-calorie) products. However, the company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola which was originally intended to be a patented medicine invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola products can be termed as normal goods and in August 2019 Coca-Cola introduced a new product into the market, that is, zero sugar where the demand has increased for the product in the market.

According to the council of the Australian Food Technology Association and Institute of Food Science and Technology, the Australian nonalcoholic beverages industry has been growing steadily, with a 2.3 percent increase in overall production in the year 2000 which amounts to 2.25 billion liters. However, in the re~ent years, sales of customary carbonated soft drinks have dropped as more and more customers become health conscious and move away from high-calorie sugary drinks. Soft Carbonated drinks. and other alcohol-free beverage manufacturers have also sensed the effects of intensifying competition from private-label soft drink makers. Nevertheless, sales of greater value energy and sports drinks have driven profit generation in the industry.

What has happened to the demand of zero sugar carbonated drinks?


Identify the correctly matched pair of the items in Column A to that of Column B.

Column A Column B
(1) Increase in demand for goods  (a)  Leftward shift in the demand curve
(2) Decrease in demand (b) Perfectly Elastic Demand
(3) Ed = ∞ (c) Increases in the income of the consumer
(4) Downward Sloping (d)  Income elasticity of Demand

Which of the following statements is true?


The figure given below shows the relation between the quantity demanded for the good X and the price of the good Z. What type of goods are X and Z?


Milk is used for making curd, sweets and chocolates.

What type of demand does milk have? Give a reason.


“I want a car but do not have money to buy it.” In economics, this statement refers to ______.


Aggregate demand in macroeconomics includes ______.


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