An increase in the price of butter, a substitute good, would be most likely to cause
a. a rightward shift of the demand curve for margarine
b. a leftward shift of the demand curve for margarine
c. the quantity of margarine demanded to increase
d. the quantity of margarine demanded to decrease
e. a decrease in the price of margarine
A
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