Larger quantities of any good will be supplied at higher prices because
a. consumers will be more satisfied
b. higher prices attract resources from other uses
c. people are naturally lazy and have to be bribed to give up their leisure
d. price and quantity supplied are inversely related
e. of the law of decreasing opportunity cost
B
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