When the price of a product is lowered from £350 to £200 quantity demanded increases from 600 to 750 units. Calculate the elasticity of demand over this section of its demand schedule.
Price fall is £150 and quantity rise is 150. Therefore using the concept of arc elasticity
e = \frac{\frac{150}{600 + 750 } }{\frac{150}{350 + 200 }} = \frac{\frac{150}{1,350}}{\frac{150}{550 }} = \frac{150}{1,350} \times \frac{550}{150} = \frac{1}{27} \times \frac{11}{1} = \frac{11}{27}