What does a price elasticity of demand equal to 1 indicate?

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What does a price elasticity of demand equal to 1 indicate?

A price elasticity of demand equal to 1 indicates unitary elasticity. This means that a 1% change in price will result in an equal percentage change in quantity demanded. In other words, the demand is neither highly responsive nor unresponsive to price changes.