Recently, in Smalltown, the price of Twinkies fell from $0.80 to $0.70 . As a result, the quantity demanded of Ho-Ho's decreased from 120 to 100 . What would be the appropriate elasticity to compute? Using the midpoint method, compute this elasticity. What does your answer tell you?
The appropriate elasticity to compute would be cross-price elasticity. The cross-price elasticity for this example would be 1.36 . The two goods are substitutes because the cross-price elasticity is positive.
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