Use the Table Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 63

Multiple Choice

Use the table below to answer the following questions.
Table 16.2.1

-Refer to Table 16.2.1. Given in the table are the marginal private cost and the marginal social cost of the production of chemical fertilizer and the marginal social benefit from the consumption of fertilizer. If the market is unregulated

• A)the quantity produced is the efficient quantity.
• B)the quantity produced is greater than the efficient quantity.
• C)the quantity produced is less than the efficient quantity.
• D)marginal external cost is maximized.
• E)production is technologically inefficient.

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