A Perfectly Competitive Firm Faces a Horizontal Demand Curve,which Implies

question 71

Multiple Choice

A perfectly competitive firm faces a horizontal demand curve,which implies that:

• A)the price in the market never changes.
• B)the firm cannot affect price by any action it takes.
• C)the quantity of output produced by the firm is indeterminate.
• D)the firm makes zero accounting profits.

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