diff --git a/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/images/xed_question.png b/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/images/xed_question.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a66d9a6 Binary files /dev/null and b/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/images/xed_question.png differ diff --git a/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/xed.md b/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/xed.md new file mode 100755 index 0000000..81f4be9 --- /dev/null +++ b/uni/mmme/3049_engineering_management_2/xed.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +author: Akbar Rahman +date: \today +title: Cross Elastic Demand (XED) +tags: [] +uuid: d6b6e3dd-1bba-466a-aad8-9e39c68280ab +--- + +The equation given in the lecture slides is: + +$$\text{XED} = \frac{\frac{\Delta q_A}{q_A}}{\frac{\Delta p_B}{p_B}}$$ + +But that's a bit ambiguous, so it's better write as: + +$$\text{XED} += \frac{\frac{q_{A,2}-q_{A,1}}{q_{A,1}}}{\frac{p_{B,2}-p_{B,1}}{p_{B,1}}} += \frac{\text{percentage change in quantity of A}}{\text{percentage change in price of B}} +$$ + +## Example + +![A question from the book (page 91)](./images/xed_question.png) + +Here, product A is the CNC machining system and product B is the control software. + +Quantity of product A sold can be found using $revenue = price \times quantity$: + +$$quantity_1 = \frac{2\,250\,000}{11\,000} = 205$$ +$$quantity_2 = \frac{4\,850\,000}{11\,000} = 441$$ + +$$\text{percentage change in quantity of A} = \frac{441-205}{205} = 1.156$$ +$$\text{percentage change in price of B} = \frac{2600-6800}{6800} = -0.618$$ + +$$\text{XED} = \frac{1.156}{-0.618} = -1.871$$