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Explain about supply curve

A supply curve which is: (i) vertical is perfectly price elastic. (ii) horizontal is perfectly price inelastic. (iii) linear and goes through the origin has a price elasticity of one. (iv) rectangularly hyperbolic is also unitarily elastic. (v) trapezoidal is infinitely elastic.

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