The price elasticities of supply and demand affect     both the size of the deadweight loss from a tax and the tax incidence.     the size of the deadweight loss from a tax but not the tax incidence.     the tax incidence but not the size of the deadweight loss from a tax.     neither the size of the deadweight loss from a tax nor the tax incidence.

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