Related to the Economics in Practice on Page 279: the Cable

question 97

Multiple Choice

Related to the Economics in Practice on page 279: The cable industry is best characterized as ________.

• A) perfectly competitive
• B) a natural monopoly
• C) monopolistically competitive
• D) having diseconomies of scale

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