Economy, asked by sakshiMehndiratta, 11 months ago

Why isn’t the price elasticity of demand written as a negative number?

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Answered by Anonymous

Answer:

So because price moves in one direction and quantity demanded moves in the opposite, the minus sign indicates this relationship. Thus, mathematically, the elasticity is a negative.

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Answered by Roshni67

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because price is never negative. do we say that one pen costs RS -5? no right? so when price is a non negative number, price elasticity of demand is also non negative number

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