Question

3. A certain brand of breakfast cereal increases its price by 20%, while other brands keep their prices unchanged. The quantity of cereal sold by the brand that increases its price declines, and the quantity sold by the other brands increases. In this case, the cross price elasticity of demand between the cereal of the brand that increases its price and the cereals produced by other brands is:

Answer 1

Answer:

greater than 0

Explanation:

As we know that in the case of the substitute goods when the price of the one good rises the demand for other good rises. In the given situation, cereal is a  substitute  goods and for the same, the cross elasticity is positive also more than zero

Therefore as per the given situation, it is greater than zero and the same is to be considered