Price and cross price elasticity


Assume that the market demand for rye bread be given by  Q = 500 + I – 250 Prye + 400Pwheat, where Q is the monthly demand in number of loaves, I is the average monthly income in dollars, Prye is the price of the loaf of rye bread and Pwheat is the price of the loaf of wheat bread.  If I = $1,000, Prye = $2 and Pwheat = $3, compute the given (based on 10% changes in denominators):

a) The arc price elasticity of demand for rye bread.

b) The arc price elasticity of demand for wheat bread.

c) The arc cross-price elasticity of the demand for rye bread.

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Microeconomics: Price and cross price elasticity
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