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Khan Academy: Price Elasticity of Demand Using the Midpoint Method
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a microeconomics course. This lesson serves as an introduction to price elasticity of demand.
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Khan Academy: More on Elasticity of Demand
Looking a bit deeper at why elasticity changes despite having a linear demand curve. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Price Elasticity of Demand
In this video lesson, explore a simple way to calculate the price elasticity of demand, how to interpret that calculation, and how price elasticity of demand varies along a demand curve. This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
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Khan Academy: Elasticity and Strange Percent Changes
This video lesson explains why we calculate percent changes in a strange way when calculating elasticities. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
There are several factors that affect how elastic (or inelastic) the price elasticity of demand is, such as the availability of substitutes, the timeframe, the share of income, whether a good is a luxury vs. a necessity, and how narrowly...
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Khan Academy: Determinants of Elasticity Example
Walk through the logic of determining what kind of good has the most elastic demand in this video. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Constant Unit Elasticity
This video lesson provides a case of price elasticity of demand, s demand curve with a constant unit elasticity. Explore what such a demand curve would look like in this video.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Reading Reference Materials
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries read manuals and other reference items to learn procedures and look up information they need to know to be successful on the job.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Entering Information Accurately in Transportation
Employees at a warehouse and shipping company explain how they are careful to enter information accurately into forms to make sure that orders are correct and go to the right place, keeping customers happy and their jobs moving smoothly.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Check Your Understanding
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries read important information like safety manuals, operating instructions and packing slips. When you're reading for work, it's important to make sure you understand what you are...
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Grouping and Sorting Packages
Employees explain how they use the mathematical concept of grouping and sorting every day in their jobs in the logistics and transportation industries.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Using Area to Solve Problems
Employees working in the field give examples of when they use formulas like area to solve problems such as understanding the sizes of packages and pallets.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Finding Area
Determining area is critical to many jobs in the construction industry. Workers use a formula to find the area of roofs and floors and solve other important problems on the job.
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Khan Academy: Visualizing Marginal Utility Mu and Total Utility Tu Functions
This video shows how to visualize marginal utility (MU) and total utility (TU) functions graphically. This resource from Khan Academy is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: The Writing Process in Construction
In the construction industry, written communication may be used to document things that happened or need to happen, make orders, and ask and answer questions. To write effective messages, follow a proven process for writing.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Interviewing
Managers and employees in fields like healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing explain why it's important to make a good first impression at a job interview and give some tips for preparing for one.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Asking Questions
Employees, employers, and a workforce trainer describe how asking questions on the job can help you improve and impress employers by demonstrating your willingness to learn.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Punctuality
A workplace trainer and employees in the healthcare and transportation industries explain how being on time in a work environment is important for productivity and safety.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Problem Solving
Problem solving is a key aspect of many kinds of jobs. Employees and managers in several industries give examples of problem solving in the workplace.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Learning on the Job
Many hiring managers are looking for someone who is willing to learn new skills and be adaptable, and learning on the job can benefit employees throughout their careers.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Time Management
Employees and managers in various industries explain why good time management skills make your work easier, safer, and more productive.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Seeing Trends
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries explain how charting data over time allows them to see trends and make better decisions about using resources.
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Khan Academy: Utility Maximization: Equalizing Marginal Utility Per Dollar
In the video lesson from Khan Academy, students will explore why the marginal utility per dollar spent should be equal for the last increment of either good purchased. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level...
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Pbs Learning Media: Above the Noise: Is Your Social Status Making You Sick?
Financial inequality has been in the news a lot recently. This inequality creates what is typically called a social status ladder, with rich people at the top and poorer people toward the bottom. Research shows that your position on the...