The Wall Street Journal magazine offers a significant discount to students who purchase a one-year subscription. If the reason for the discount is price discrimination, we can conclude that:
A. students have a less elastic demand for newspapers than does the general public.
B. there is no difference between a student's elasticity of demand for newspapers and any other person's elasticity of demand.
C. students have a more elastic demand for newspapers than does the general public.
D. students have a perfectly inelastic demand for newspapers.
Answer: C
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