The Short-Run Supply Curve for a Perfectly Competitive Industry Is

question 66

Multiple Choice

The short-run supply curve for a perfectly competitive industry is:

• A)downward sloping because of the law of diminishing marginal returns.
• B)derived by summing the individual firms' marginal cost curves horizontally.
• C)perfectly elastic in the case of homogeneous products.
• D)the negatively sloped portion of the marginal cost curve.

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