The Great Upheaval. A Spontaneous Eruption. It started with a 10% pay cut. When leaders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company ordered this second reduction in less than eight months, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia decided they had had enough.
According to this method, âprice elasticity of demand is the ratio of percentage change in the amount demanded to the percentage change in price of the commodity.â. It is also known as the Percentage Method, Flux Method, Ratio Method, and Arithmetic Method.
1 When the price elasticity of demand for a good is unit (or unitary) elastic (E d = 1), the percentage change in quantity is equal to that in price, so a change in price will not affect total revenue.2  When the price elasticity of demand for a good is relatively elastic d. When the price elasticity of demand for a good is relatively elastic d. 2  When the price elasticity of demand for a good is perfectly elastic (E d is â â), any increase in the price, no matter how small, will cause demand for the good to drop to zero. 3  Hence, when the price is raised, the total revenue falls to zero.