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

question 82

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.
-A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit when:

• A)its marginal revenue is equal to its marginal cost.
• B)its marginal revenue is greater than its marginal cost.
• C)its marginal cost is negative.
• D)its marginal cost is greater than its marginal revenue.
• E)its marginal cost is minimum.

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