In a Perfectly Competitive Market

question 251

Multiple Choice

In a perfectly competitive market

• A) each firm sets its own price so that it is different from its competitors.
• B) an economic profit is certain.
• C) each firm takes the good's price as given to it by the market.
• D) consumers are persuaded by advertising.

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