Generally, expenses on a truck are a large part of a consumer's budget, so the demand for trucks is more likely to be

a. elastic
b. inelastic
c. unit elastic
d. perfectly elastic

Answer: a. elastic

Economics

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As a price searcher, a monopoly firm

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