In a Perfectly Competitive Market,a Firm Maximizes Its Profit by Producing

question 13

Multiple Choice

In a perfectly competitive market,a firm maximizes its profit by producing the quantity of output at which

• A)market price equals average fixed cost.
• B)market price equals marginal cost.
• C)average variable cost equals average fixed cost.
• D)market price equals minimum average variable cost.
• E)market price equals marginal revenue.

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