The management of Iron Mills have estimated the following elasticity’s for its product as ?Qx,Px= 2; ?Q,I=1; and ?Qx,Py= 1.5 Where x refers to iron, I to income, and y to steel.
Next year the firm would like to increase the price of iron by 6 percent. Management forecasts that next year income will rise by 4 percent and that the price of steel will decline by 2 percent. If the company’s sales of iron this year are 1,200,000 kilograms, how many kilograms of iron can the firm expect to sell next year?