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If income declines by 2.85 percent, how much do I have to cut price in order to maintain existing customers?

It starts with being given a regression analysis that has the following: coefficient of the intercept is .45, the coefficient of the natural logarithm of price is -2.14, and the natural logarithm of income is .90. Based on the t-stat, p-value etc. I am reasonably confident that the true coefficients are different from zero. Also I come up with the equation of:

ln customers = .45 -2.14 ln(Price) + .90 ln(income)

However I am not sure once I get to this point.
I understand that the coefficients are elasticities but then what?

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Solution explains how much price cut is needed to compensate the decrease in customer base due to fall in income. It is explained with the help of elasticity co-efficients.

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Solution:

It is true that coefficients are elasticities in this case.

Income elasticity of demand=0.90
% change in income = -2.85%
Income elasticity of demand = %change in demand / %change in Income
Put the values in ...

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