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Congratulations you are the CEO of company FANTASTIC plc. It has been estimated that a 4% increase in your customers’ income will result in an increase in sales of your main product, X by 5.5%. Using this information answer the following questions:”
- First calculate the income elasticity of your main product?
- What type of a product is X? Fully explain using an example.
- What type of income elasticity in associated with product X, why and what does this mean?
- What will you do IF the income of your customers drops by 2%?
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