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During the Middle Ages, the African city of Taghaza quarried salt in 200-pound blocks to be sent to the salt market in Timbuktu, in present-day Mali. Travelers report that Taghazans used salt instead of wood to construct buildings. How would the elasticity of demand for wood in Taghaza have compared with the elasticity of demand for wood in other towns without big salt mines

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a. it would have been more elastic.

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