For Consumers, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Doughnuts Are Substitutes

question 254

True/False

For consumers, chocolate chip cookies and doughnuts are substitutes. So, an increase in the price of chocolate chip cookies will lead to a rightward shift in the demand curve for doughnuts.

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