As perfectly competitive firms leave a market because they are incurring an economic loss, the price of the good ________ and the economic loss of each remaining firm ________

A) rises; increases
B) rises; decreases
C) falls; increases
D) falls; decreases

B

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For a number of years, General Motors used a pricing strategy designed to maintain at least 40 percent of the American car market. Does this strategy suggest that GM was maximizing profits or pursuing an alternative strategy?

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The optimal number of trucks is

Consider the following production function for a delivery service.


Each delivery generates $200 in gross revenue, and the tax rate is 10 percent on profits. Each truck costs $11,000.

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) 5

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