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Hodder & Stoughton Limited 2015Price elasticity of supplyAS/Year 1 Microeconomics tutorialAQA A-level EconomicsPrice elasticity of supply(PES)PES measures the responsiveness of quantity supplied to a change in price
Formula:
percentage change in quantity supplied percentage change in price
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