Scenario 9.2 Consider a Publicly Held Firm (One Whose Stock Shares Are

question 12

Multiple Choice

Scenario 9.2
Consider a publicly held firm (one whose stock shares are traded on the stock exchange) that earned revenue worth $350 million and incurred land, labor, and debt costs worth $320 million. The stockholders who have invested a total of $100 million in this firm could have earned 10 percent return on other comparable investments.
-If an individual firm in a market is a price taker, then:

• A)it faces a horizontal demand curve.
• B)it is operating in a monopolistically competitive market.
• C)it sells its product at the market price that is solely determined by the buyers.
• D)it faces a positively sloped marginal revenue curve.
• E)it faces significant barriers to exit from the market.

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