Mixster Concrete Company Is Considering Buying a New Cement Truck

question 21

Multiple Choice

Mixster Concrete Company is considering buying a new cement truck. The owners and their accountants decide that this is the profitable thing to do. Before they can buy the truck, the interest rate and price of trucks change. In which case do these changes both make them less likely to buy the truck?

• A)Interest rates rise and truck prices rise.
• B)Interest rates fall and truck prices rise.
• C)Interest rates rise and truck prices fall.
• D)Interest rates fall and truck prices fall.

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