If a firm's production function is Leontief and the price of capital goes down, the:
A. cost-minimizing combination of capital and labor does not change.
B. firm must use less capital in order to minimize the cost of producing a given level of output.
C. firm must use more capital in order to minimize the cost of producing a given level of output.
D. firm must use less labor in order to minimize the cost of producing a given level of output.
Answer: A
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