Build-Right Concrete Products Produces Specialty Cement Used in Construction of Highways.Build-Right
Build-Right Concrete Products produces specialty cement used in construction of highways.Build-Right is a price-setting firm and estimates the demand for its cement by the State Highway Department using a demand function in the nonlinear form: where Q = yards of cement demanded monthly,P = the price of Build-Right's cement per yard,M = state tax revenues per capita,and
= the price of asphalt per yard.The manager at Build-Right transforms the nonlinear relation into a linear relation for estimation.The estimation results are presented below:
Given the above,the estimated demand for cement is
A) elastic because = -4.0.
B) elastic because = -2.0.
C) elastic because = -1.5.
D) inelastic because = -0.32.
E) inelastic because = -0.8.
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