Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.6

7.6 — practice question

When a perfectly competitive industry is taken over by a profit-maximising monopoly, the monopolist’s marginal cost curve coincides with the supply curve of the perfectly competitive industry. What changes occur to output and price?

  • Aoutput decreases; price decreases
  • Boutput decreases; price increases
  • Coutput increases; price decreases
  • Doutput increases; price increases

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