What Will the Use of Average-Cost Pricing for a Natural

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Multiple Choice

What will the use of average-cost pricing for a natural monopoly result in?

• A) the socially efficient level of output
• B) the firm suffering economic losses
• C) a greater than socially efficient level of output
• D) a less than socially efficient level of output

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