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Illustrate the effects of Dr. Jones’s pricing on the number of visits using a demand curve.
The cost of Dr. Jones’s prenatal care determines the number of visits per year. At a cost of $200 per visit, patients visited 2 times; at $150, 3 visits; at $100, 4 visits; at $80, 5 visits; and at $50, 6 visits.
Show the correlation between price and number of visits on the demand curve graph
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