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The cab fare in Horseville is regulated. Recently, the government decided to raise it from 2.00 to 2.50 per ride. After this rise in fare, cab ridership decreased by 10 percent.
 
  a) What is the price elasticity of demand for cab rides in Horseville? (Use the midpoint formula to calculate the percentage change in the price.) Is the demand for rides elastic or inelastic? b) According to your estimate, what happened to the cab drivers' revenue after the fare rose? Explain. c) Why might your estimate of elasticity be inaccurate?

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Individuals making decisions about how much to purchase of a product with an external benefit base their decisions on which of the following?
 
  A) the price and marginal private benefit
  B) the economically efficient output
  C) the price and the marginal social benefit
  D) the size of the deadweight loss
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