If price increases from $45 to $55, the market quantity supplied increases from 20 units per week to 30 units per week. The price elasticity of supply is

a. 1/2 = 0.5
b. 1.0
c. 11/6 = 1.8333
d. 9/4 = 2.25
e. 2.0

E

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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax increase that decreases aggregate demand from AD1 to AD will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies.

A. D; C B. D; B C. A; B D. B; C

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