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What is meant by inelastic demand?

Give the meaning of inelastic demand.

उत्तर

When a large change in the price does not bring so much change in the demand, the demand is said to be inelastic. In this situation, percentage change in demand is lesser than the percentage change in price.

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2017-2018 (March) All India Set 3

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Demand curve and Supply curve.


Demand for a good is termed inelastic through the expenditure approach when if (choose the correct alternative)

a) Price of good falls, expenditure on it rises

b) Price of the good falls, expenditure in it falls

c) Price of the good falls, expenditure on it remains unchanged

d) Price of the good rises, expenditure in it falls


Demand deposits include (choose the correct alternative)

(a) Saving account deposits and fixed deposits

(b) Saving account deposits and current account deposits

(c) Current account deposits and fixed deposits

(d) All types of deposits


Write short answer for the following question.

Explain the Law of Demand.


Fill in the blanks using proper alternatives given in the brackets. 

Demand for car and petrol is ____________ de 


Write whether the following statement is True or False:

Demand curve has a positive slope.


Write whether the following statement is True or False: 

Salt has elastic demand.


Match the following:
 

Group A
Group B
1. Demand and price
a. Substitute goods
2. Tea and coffee
b. Inverse relation
3. Inferior goods
c. Joint demand
4. Factors of production
d. Distribution of income
5. Pen and ink
e. Composite demand
 
f. Giffen goods
 
g. Indirect demand

Distinguish between Desire and Demand.


Distinguish between substitute goods and complementary goods, with examples.


If the income of a consumer increases, discuss briefly its likely impact on the demand for a inferior good, Good X.


Increase in price of substitute goods leads to ______


Which of the following statements is true?


Read the following news report and answer the Q.97-Q.100 on the basis of the same:

The quantity of a commodity that a consumer is willing to buy and is able to afford, given the prices of goods and the consumer's tastes and preferences is called demand for the commodity. Whenever one or more of these variables change, the quantity of the good Chosen by the consumer is likely to change as well. The relation between the consumer's optimal choice of the quantity of a good and its price is very important and this relation is called the demand function. Thus, the consumer's demand function for a good gives the amount of the good that the consumer chooses at different levels of its price when the other things remain.

The price elasticity of demand for a good depends on ______ and ______ of the good.


Which of the following statement is true?


The demand curve of a firm under monopoly is ______


Demand deposits include:


Identify the correctly matched pair of the items in Column A to that of Column B.

Column A Column B
(1) Increase in demand for goods  (a)  Leftward shift in the demand curve
(2) Decrease in demand (b) Perfectly Elastic Demand
(3) Ed = ∞ (c) Increases in the income of the consumer
(4) Downward Sloping (d)  Income elasticity of Demand

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

In India, Fixed deposits have long been a favourite investment choice of people, especially senior citizens, as it promise steady returns. It attracts those who are seeking a stable income. But it’s an illusion in the period of inflation.

Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises, subsequently eroding the purchasing power of money. In simple terms, what money could buy today might not a few years down the line. Fixed deposits are financial instruments offered by banks where you deposit a lump sum amount for a fixed period at a predetermined rate of interest. Consider an investment of Rs 1 crore in a fixed deposit at a 6% annual interest rate and the annual rate of inflation is 5%. By the 10th year your pre inflation return is 1.79 crore, but post inflation it’s just 1.10 crore. The nominal value of investment in fixed deposits may appear to grow, inflation significantly diminishes their real value and purchasing power over time.

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  2. Differentiate between Demand pull and Cost push inflation.   (2)
  3. What are the demand deposits and time deposits?   (2)
  4. Since 1998 RBI has been using new measures of money supply, M0, M1, M2 and M3. Which one of these measures incorporates fixed deposit as one of its components? Mention the other components of that measure.   (2)

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