Blossom, Inc., sells 500 bottles of perfume a month when the price is $7. A huge increase in resource costs forces Blossom to raise the price to $9, and the firm only manages to sell 460 bottles of perfume. Using the midpoint formula, the price elasticity of demand coefficient is __________
The midpoint formula calculates the price elasticity of demand by dividing the percentage change in purchase quantity by the percentage change in price.