(Figure: Profit-Maximizing Quantity and Price IX) Answer the Following Questions

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Essay

(Figure: Profit-maximizing Quantity and Price IX) Answer the following questions.
a. Suppose the figure represents a perfectly competitive industry. How does the flattening of the demand curve affect the equilibrium price and quantity?
b. Suppose the figure represents a monopolist. What is the monopolist's profit-maximizing price and quantity for demand curves D₁ and D₂?
c. Redo your answer to b, assuming marginal cost changed to MC = 2Q.

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