A country that is the major supplier of a certain commodity wishes to improve its balance-of-trade position

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A country that is the major supplier of a certain commodity wishes to improve its balance-of-trade position by lowering the price of the commodity. The demand function is q = 1000/p2.

(a) Compute E( p).

(b) Will the country succeed in raising its revenue? 24. Show that any demand function of the form q = a/pm has constant elasticity m.

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Calculus And Its Applications

ISBN: 9780134437774

14th Edition

Authors: Larry Goldstein, David Lay, David Schneider, Nakhle Asmar

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