1. The Jazz learns that own-price elasticity is ‒0.75. What does this tell us about marginal revenue? Explain.
2. Why was the “reverse-order draft” invented?
3. Why did the 0.400 hitter vanish in baseball?
Q1) According to the inverse elasticity rule, Marginal Revenue = P (1 - 1/e)
where Marginal Revenue is the addition to the total revenue when an additional unit of output is sold.
P is the market price of the product.
e is the own price elasticity.
Marginal Revenue = P (1 - 1/e)
Considering the above equation,
If the absolute value of e = 1, then Marginal revenue = 0
If the absolute value of e > 1, then marginal revenue > 0
If the absolute value of e < 1, then marginal revenue < 0
In this case, the absolute value of own price elasticity is less than 1 that is it is 0.75, this means that the marginal revenue will also be less than 0.
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