Economics For Today
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ISBN: 9781337613040
Author: Tucker
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 21SQ
If bus travel is an inferior good, its income
- a. strictly greater than 1.
- b. positive.
- c. equal to zero.
- d. negative.
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