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The expenditure on the good would change in the opposite direction as the price change if and only if:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Total expenditure moves opposite to price only when demand is elastic, i.e., ∣ed∣>1|e_d| > 1. This requires the percentage change in quantity demanded to be greater than the percentage change in price: a price fall then raises expenditure and a price rise lowers it.

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