A Perfectly Competitive Firm Maximizes Its Profit by Producing the Output

question 187

Multiple Choice

A perfectly competitive firm maximizes its profit by producing the output at which its marginal cost equals its

• A) marginal revenue.
• B) average total cost.
• C) average variable cost.
• D) average fixed cost.

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