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- Dominos Pizza is trying to attract pizza delivery drivers away from Pizza Hut by offering them hourly wages above the current market wage (assumed to be $8 per hour). If the correct supply
price elasticity for delivery drivers is 3.0 and Dominos wants to increase its delivery personnel by 15 percent, then they must increase their hourly wage from $8/hour to:- $8.40/hour
- $8.80/hour
- $9.00/hour
- $9.40/hour
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