Price Elasticity of Demand Question
Anyone wants to take a stab at this?
Dory’s CFO is looking for opportunities to improve margins and has obtained the following information from the sales manager of the company’s high end fishing poles:
In 2015, Dory’s sold 125,000 fishing poles at a price of $80.00 per rod to their largest client, Sports World. Sports World has indicated that if Dory’s increases the price of the product by 3%, they would purchase 132,500 poles this year; but if they raise the price by 10%, his order would stay at 125,000 poles.
Based on this information, what’s approximately the implied price elasticity of the high end fishing poles?
- Negative 0.7
- Negative 0.8
- Zero
- Positive 0.1
So demand is (1 - 125/132.5)% lower when price is (1.1 / 1.03)% higher. Pretty straightforward calculation.
Yup, you're right. it's been a while since I studied micro. Quick comment: what confused me was if you increase the price by 3%, the quantity demanded increases by 6% (132.5/125 -1), which implies PED of 2.0. On the other hand, if price increases by 10%, Qd remains 0, which implies PED of 0. How do these calculations reconcile with what you did?
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How, please?
Trick question. Of course Sports World "says" they will buy less but it's not like they can be trusted. Get another data source.
It has been a long time since I have done any microeconomics and I did not like these classes. There seems to be two different elasticities of demand: one for a 3% price increase and one for a 10% price increase. I really do not understand how quantity could go up if the price goes up. Wouldn't this imply a positive elasticity of demand. For the 10% increase in price, there is no change in quantity, which would suggest that demand is inelastic.
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