If a profit-maximizing monopolist is currently charging a price on the inelastic portion of its demand curve, it should ______.

a. raise price and decrease output
b. lower price and increase output
c. reduce both output and price
d. hold output constant and raise price
e. do none of these

Ans: a. raise price and decrease output

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