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Rebel Records announces it is cutting the prices of its bluegrass album titles by 25 percent. If Rebel is seeking to increase revenues, it must believe that the elasticity of demand for bluegrass albums is Group of answer choices elastic. inelastic. of unitary elasticity. perfectly inelastic.

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Answer:

elastic.

Step-by-step explanation:

Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded to changes in price of the good.

Price elasticity of demand = percentage change in quantity demanded / percentage change in price

If the absolute value of price elasticity is greater than one, it means demand is elastic. Elastic demand means that quantity demanded is sensitive to price changes.

If demand is elastic and price is decreased, quantity demanded would increase. The increase in quantity demanded would be greater than the decrease in demand and this would lead to an increase in revenue.

Demand is inelastic if a small change in price has little or no effect on quantity demanded. The absolute value of elasticity would be less than one

Demand is unit elastic if a small change in price has an equal and proportionate effect on quantity demanded.

Infinitely elastic demand is perfectly elastic demand. Demand falls to zero when price increases

Perfectly inelastic demand is demand where there is no change in the quantity demanded regardless of changes in price.

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