13. The question focuses on income elasticity, asking what is most likely to have happened to price and quantity sold of new cars in the Midwest as income increases.

   New cars are not only likely to be normal goods, they are probably luxury goods; meaning that sales of new cars probably increased by a greater percentage than did income. In other words, the increase in income would cause the demand for new cars to shift out and price and quantity would increase.

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