The price of stadium seats at a baseball game increases from $20 to $30 and ticket sales fall from 45,000 per game to 35,000 per game. If other things remained constant, then it appears that the price elasticity of demand is:
a. elastic

b. inelastic.
c. unit elastic.
d. unit inelastic.
e. equal to zero.


b

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