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icang [17]
3 years ago
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If the market elasticity of demand for potatoes is -0.3 in a perfectly competitive market, then the individual farmer's elastici

ty of demand A. will also be -0.3. B. will range between -0.3 and -1.0. C. will be infinite. D. depends on how large a crop the farmer produces.
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1 answer:
Ymorist [56]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The correct answer is option C.

Explanation:

A perfectly competitive firm faces a perfectly elastic demand curve. In a perfectly competitive market, there is a large number of buyers and sellers, such that no single firm is able to affects the price or output level. The demand curve faced by a single firm is a horizontal line.  

The market demand curve, on the other hand, is downward sloping. So whatever be the market elasticity of demand, the elasticity of individual firm will be infinite.

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