If the price of a wool sweater did not change, calculate the cross elasticity of demand for

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If the price of a wool sweater did not change, calculate the cross elasticity of demand for wool sweaters with respect to the price of home heating oil. Are home heating oil and wool sweaters substitutes or complements? Why?

When the price of home heating oil increased by 20 percent, the quantity demanded decreased by 2 percent and the quantity of wool sweaters demanded increased by 10 percent. Use this information to work Problems 1 and 2.

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Foundations Of Microeconomics

ISBN: 9780132830881

6th Edition

Authors: Robin Bade, Michael Parkin

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