[Note: The distance between cities in California (US) distance chart below is straight line distance (may be called as flying or air distance) between the two locations in California (US) calculated based on their latitudes and longitudes. This distance may be very much different from the actual travel distance.]
Price of Related Goods: Demand for the given commodity is also affected by change in prices of the related goods. Related goods are of two types: (i) Substitute Goods: Substitute goods are those goods which can be used in place of one another for satisfaction of a particular want, like tea and coffee.
Elasticity is the strength of the relationship between price levels and consumer demand. A product is highly elastic if consumer demand varies considerably with price. For these products, an increase in price is likely to cause a substantial downward change in the quantity of demand. The prices of inelastic products, by contrast, do not vary considerably with price. For inelastic products, either increases or decreases in price are unlikely to change the quantity of consumer demand.