In a Perfectly Competitive Market in Which Identical Firms Face

question 218

Multiple Choice

In a perfectly competitive market in which identical firms face the same horizontal marginal cost curve, if demand increases, then the amount of consumer surplus will

• A) increase.
• B) decrease.
• C) become negative.
• D) not change.

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