What is the key characteristic of perfect competition?

a. Many firms sell identical products.
b. Many firms sell a variety of products.
c. One firm sells a highly demanded product.
d. One firm creates a legal monopoly.

a. Many firms sell identical products.

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Over the past 100 years real GDP per person in the United States, on average, has

A) decreased by about 5 percent per year. B) increased by about 2 percent per year. C) increased by about 5 percent per year. D) increased by about 10 percent per year.

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If the long-run supply of rice is perfectly elastic, then

A) as people's incomes rise, the quantity of rice supplied decreases. B) as the price of corn falls, the quantity of rice demanded decreases. C) in the long run, a large rise in the price of rice causes no change in the quantity of rice supplied. D) in the long run, an increase in the demand for rice leaves the price of rice unchanged.

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