Question

Read the below news clip, then answer the following question.

Two gas stations on opposite sides of theâ road: Rutter's Farm Store and Sheetz gas station.â Rutter's doesn't even have to look across the road to know when Sheetz changes its price for a gallon of gas. When Sheetz raisesâ prices, Rutter's pumps are busy. When Sheetz lowersâ prices, there's not a car in sight. Both gas stations survive but each has no control over price.
1. Each of the gas stations mentioned in the news clip faces a demand that isâ _____.
A. perfectly inelastic
B. inelastic
C. unit elastic
D. highly elastic

Answer 1

D. highly elastic

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that the price and the quantity demanded has an inverse relationship as per the law of demand.

In the high elastic demand, if the price changes slightly then it would have a big impact on the quantity demanded.

In the given scenario, if the gas stations change the price either increase or decrease, the quantity demanded significantly decreased which reflects that the demand is highly elastic