Dairy Dream, a local ice cream store, finds that it sells out of ice cream sandwiches at the current price of $1. It raises the price to increase its revenues and finds that no one buys ice cream sandwiches anymore. The demand for ice cream sandwiches is: a. inelastic. b. elastic. c. perfectly inelastic. d. perfectly elastic. e. unitary elastic.
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