Refer to the Diagram, Which Is a Rectangular Hyperbola, That

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Multiple Choice

Refer to the diagram, which is a rectangular hyperbola, that is, a curve such that each rectangle drawn from any point on the curve will be of identical area. If this rectangular hyperbola was a demand curve, we could say that it would be

• A)elastic at high prices and inelastic at low prices.
• B)elastic at low prices and inelastic at high prices.
• C)impossible to generalize about its elasticity.
• D)of unit elasticity throughout.

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