Calculating price elasticity of demand - example

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• Applied Math on determining price elasticity of demand

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• price elasticity of demand

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• Price elasticity of demand

  Co-efficient of the price elasticity of demand The price elasticity of demand is denoted by ep = .43 which is less than 1. ep <1. ep is the co-efficient of the price elasticity of demand.