Even though the slope of a linear demand curve is constant, the elasticity is not. This is

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Even though the slope of a linear demand curve is constant, the elasticity is not. This is true because the slope is the ratio of changes in the two variables, whereas the elasticity is the ratio of percentage changes in the two variables.
Elasticity along a straight line demand curve varies from zero at the quantity axis to infinity at the price axis. ... At the midpoint ... elasticity is equal to one, or unit elastic.
Please explain the above intuitively?
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Microeconomics

ISBN: 978-0132857123

8th edition

Authors: Robert Pindyck, Daniel Rubinfeld

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