If a one percent increase in the price of bananas leads to a one percent decrease in the quantity of bananas demanded, then the demand for bananas is

A) elastic.
B) inelastic.
C) unit-elastic.
D) perfectly inelastic.

Answer: C) unit-elastic.

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