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OPPORTUNITY COST, PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES: The production possibilities analysis, which is the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology, can be used to illustrate opportunity cost--the highest valued alternative foregone in the pursuit of an activity.
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Lesson 12: Elasticity and Demand | Unit 3: Measurement
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Expenditures And Elasticity
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The five elasticity alternatives on the demand curve can also be seen on the this total expenditures curve.- The perfectly elastic point is at origin with a 0 quantity and 0 total expenditures, corresponding with the intersection of the demand curve and the vertical price axis.
- The relatively elastic range is the first half of the total expenditures curve between the 0 million minutes and 5 million minutes, corresponding with the "upper" half of the demand curve.
- The unit elastic point is at the very peak of the total expenditures curve at 5 million minutes, corresponding with the exact midpoint of the demand curve.
- The relatively inelastic range is the second half of the total expenditures curve between the 5 million minutes and 10 million minutes, corresponding with the "lower" half of the demand curve.
- The perfectly inelastic point is at with 0 total expenditures and 10 million minutes, corresponding intersection between the demand curve and the horizontal quantity axis.
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