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A-LevelEconomicsDemand and Supply / Elasticity of DemandFeb/Mar 2023Paper 1 Q81 Mark

A sports stadium has two prices of seats. The cheaper seats are $10 and the more expensive seats are $20. When the prices of all seats are increased by 10%, the effects on demand are a fall of 5% for the cheaper seats and a fall of 12% for the more expensive seats. What describes the responsiveness of demand to the change in price?

Aelastic, elastic
Belastic, inelastic
Cinelastic, elastic
Dinelastic, unitary elasticity

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About This A-Level Economics Question

This multiple-choice question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Economics (9708) Feb/Mar 2023 examination, Paper 1 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Demand and Supply / Elasticity of Demand and is worth 1 mark.

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