Shelby said to her friend, "I just bought a new pair of climbing shoes and I love them so much that I totally would have paid more for them." Shelby was describing the concept of

A) consumer surplus.
B) producer surplus.
C) equilibrium.
D) marginal cost.
E) total surplus.


A

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