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  2. Realia (education) - Wikipedia

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    In education, realia (/ r iː ˈ eɪ l ɪ ə /) are objects from real life used in classroom instruction by educators to improve students' learning. [1] A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for common objects and the objects themselves. In many cases, these objects are part of ...

  3. Elasticity (economics) - Wikipedia

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    If price elasticity of demand is calculated to be less than 1, the good is said to be inelastic. An inelastic good will respond less than proportionally to a change in price; for example, a price increase of 40% that results in a decrease in demand of 10%. Goods that are inelastic often have at least one of the following characteristics:

  4. Law of demand - Wikipedia

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    Income elasticity of demand is an economic measurement tool developed to measure the sensitivity of a goods quantity demanded when there is a change in the real income of a consumer. To calculate the income elasticity of demand, the percentage change in quantity demanded is divided by the percentage change in the consumers income.

  5. Price elasticity of demand - Wikipedia

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    Demand for a good is said to be elastic when the elasticity is greater than one. A good with an elasticity of −2 has elastic demand because quantity demanded falls twice as much as the price increase; an elasticity of −0.5 has inelastic demand because the change in quantity demanded change is half of the price increase. [2]

  6. Cross elasticity of demand - Wikipedia

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    In that case, it means that a slight change in the product's price will cause a significant reduction in the consumer demand for the product. Therefore, companies should first make a careful study of the elasticity of demand for their products before setting prices. It ensures a broader profit range for the company. A real-life example is Apple.

  7. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    teaching concepts and vocabulary through pantomiming, real-life objects and other visual materials; teaching grammar by using an inductive approach (i.e. having learners find out rules through the presentation of adequate linguistic forms in the target language) the centrality of spoken language (including a native-like pronunciation)

  8. Marginal demand - Wikipedia

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    Marginal demand in economics is the change in demand for a product or service in response to a specific change in its price. [1] Normally, as prices for goods or services rise, demand falls, and conversely, as prices for goods or services fall, demand rises.

  9. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...