An increase in the demand for peanut butter, a normal good, can be caused by a(n):

a. decrease in consumer income.
b. increase in the price of jams, jellies, and preserves.
c. decrease in the price of bread.
d. drought in Georgia that destroyed 30 percent of the peanut crop.
e. decrease in the price of bologna.


a

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