You are the manager of a popular shoe company. You know that the advertising elasticity of demand for your product is 0.15. How much will you have to increase advertising in order to increase demand by 10 percent?

A. 38.6 percent
B. 66.7 percent
C. 4.3 percent
D. 0.02 percent


Answer: B

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Assuming the market is in equilibrium in the graph shown with demand D and supply S2 at a quantity of 8, producer surplus is:



A. 28
B. less than the consumer surplus.
C. 16
D. $32.

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