Micro Economics For Today
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Author: Tucker, Irvin B.
Publisher: Cengage,
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Chapter 5, Problem 23SQ
If automobiles and gasoline are complements, then their cross-elasticity coefficient is
- a. strictly greater than 1.
- b. positive.
- c. equal to zero.
- d. negative.
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