Suppose the company that owns the vending machines on your campus has doubled the price of a can of soda. They then notice that they are selling approximately 15 percent fewer sodas. The price elasticity of demand for sodas from the campus vending machines, therefore, is:

A. unit elastic.
B. inelastic.
C. elastic.
D. infinite.


Answer: B

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