Comparing Single-Price Monopoly to Perfect Competition, Monopoly

question 71

Multiple Choice

Comparing single-price monopoly to perfect competition, monopoly

• A) has no consumer surplus.
• B) increases the amount of consumer surplus.
• C) decreases the amount of consumer surplus.
• D) decreases the amount of economic profit.
• E) has the same amount of consumer surplus.

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