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question 269

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Figure: Market for Bathroom Cleaner
-(Figure: Market for Bathroom Cleaner) Refer to the figure. The figure shows a market for cans of a bathroom cleaner that causes environmental damage, imposing costs on people other than the consumers and producers of the cleaner. If consumers were taxed such that they only purchased the efficient quantity of the product, how much deadweight loss would be removed from this market?

• A) $90
• B) $180
• C) $45
• D) $255