Build-Right Concrete Products produces specialty cement used in construction of highways. Build-Right is a price-setting firm and estimates the demand for its cement by the State Highway Department using a demand function in the nonlinear form:Q = aPbMc
where Q = yards of cement demanded monthly, P = the price of Build-Right's cement per yard, M = state tax revenues per capita, and PR = the price of asphalt per yard. The manager at Build-Right transforms the nonlinear relation into a linear relation for estimation. The estimation results are presented below: 
height="198" width="577" />Given the above, the estimated cross-price elasticity of demand for cement relative to the price of asphalt is
A. 0.6
B. 0.3
C. 1.2
D. 3.0
E. none of the above
Answer: A
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