The Following Graph Shows a Firm Producing Jeans in a Monopolistically

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Multiple Choice

The following graph shows a firm producing jeans in a monopolistically competitive market. The firm faces a downward-sloping, linear demand curve, D. The marginal revenue curve of the firm is shown by MR. AC and MC are the average total cost and marginal cost curves of the firm. Which of the following is likely to be true about the apparel industry?Figure 9.3:

• A)New firms will enter the jeans industry.
• B)Existing firms will exit the jeans industry.
• C)The industry is at long-run equilibrium.
• D)At the profit-maximizing level, output is produced at the minimum average total cost.
• E)At the profit-maximizing level, price equals marginal revenue.

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