A sporting goods store observes that as they reduce the price of squash balls from $5 to $4, their quantity demanded rises from 200 to 220. Rounding to the nearest tenth, they correctly compute the elasticity of demand of squash balls to be:

A. 2.3.
B. 5.
C. 0.4.
D. 0.1.


Answer: C

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