Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 31

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-(Figure: Game-Day Shirts) Use Figure: Game-Day Shirts.Rick is one of the 10 vendors who sell Game-Day T-shirts at football games in a perfectly competitive market.His costs are identical to the costs of the other nine vendors.If the price of a shirt is $9,in the long run:

• A) new firms will enter the industry.
• B) existing firms will exit the industry.
• C) the industry is in equilibrium.
• D) the industry has minimized average total cost.

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