Average cost pricing for a natural monopoly will results in ______.

a. the socially efficient level of output
b. a less than socially efficient level of output
c. a greater than socially efficient level of output
d. the firm suffering economic losses
e. the firm earning economic profit

Ans: b. a less than socially efficient level of output

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