The price elasticity of demand for a good measures the responsiveness of:

A. price to a 1 percent change in the quantity demanded of that good.
B. price to a 1 percent change in the demand for that good.
C. quantity demanded to a 1 percent change in price of that good.
D. demand to a 1 percent change in price of that good.

Answer: C

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