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Suppose that during the past year , the price of a laptop computer fell from $2,100 to $1,820. During the same time period , consumer sales increased from 429,000 to 530,000 laptops

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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