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Determine price elasticity of perfectly elastic demand

A city government trying to pass an excise tax for that the economic burden would be borne strictly through the seller will succeed when this imposes a tax on a good for that the price elasticity of: (i) demand is unitarily elastic. (ii) supply is relatively elastic. (iii) demand is perfectly inelastic. (iv) supply is relatively inelastic. (v) demand is perfectly elastic.

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