If the Price of Cotton Increases

question 96

Multiple Choice

If the price of cotton increases

• A) consumers will buy more cotton clothes.
• B) consumers will increase their purchases of clothing made of other materials.
• C) clothing producers will stop making cotton clothes.
• D) clothing producers will not be able to adjust their output.

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