Dan sells newspapers. Dan says that a 4 percent increase in the price of a newspaper will decrease the quantity of newspapers demanded by 8 percent. According to Dan, the demand for newspapers is ________

A) inelastic
B) unit elastic
C) perfectly elastic
D) elastic


D

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