The price elasticity of supply measures how

A. responsive quantity supplied is to a change in incomes.
B. easily labor and capital can be substituted for one another in the production process.
C. responsive the quantity supplied of Y is to changes in the price of X.
D. responsive the quantity supplied of X is to changes in the price of X.


Answer: D

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