Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.6

7.6 — practice question

An industry that is perfectly competitive changes into a monopoly that maximises profit. The monopolist’s marginal cost curve is the same as the supply curve of the perfectly competitive industry. What effect will this have on output and price?

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

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