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What is total revenue? How are total revenue and elasticity related? How do you graph total revenue curves? How do you calculate total revenue?

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1 What is total revenue? How are total revenue and elasticity related? How do you graph total revenue curves? How do you calculate total revenue?

2 What is total revenue? Businesses care about elasticity of demand—it helps them figure out their total revenue, and whether demand for a product is elastic or inelastic Total revenue—total amount of a company's sales and other sources of income. –does not include earnings or profits, which take expenses into account. –high total revenue is desirable for any company.

3 How do you calculate total revenue? It’s simple! # of units sold X price of unit revenue or TR=P x Q Practice 1: Backyard BBQ Co. sold 4,088 grills at a price of $89 each. What was their total revenue? Practice 2: Alex’s Lemonade sold 1,250 glasses of original lemonade at $1.50 a glass. They sold 1,300 glasses of pink lemonade at $1.75 a glass. What was their total revenue?

4 What does total revenue look like on a graph? The demand schedule can help you make a demand curve, then you point out areas of elasticity. PriceQdTRElasticity

5 What does total revenue look like on a graph? Multiply the Qd by the price in the demand curve to create a TR graph


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