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3- Perfectly competitive firms are sometimes called price makers because they have significant control over product price.
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B. FALSE
A. TRUE
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B
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Firms in a perfectly competitive market achieve both allocative and productive efficiency in the short run.
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A. TRUE B. FALSE
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B
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2- For a perfectly competitive firm, price is identical to marginal revenue at every quantity.
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B. FALSE
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
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A
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4- Consumers benefit from market exchange when the maximum price they are willing to pay for a unit of a good is less than what they usually pay.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
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B
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5- In a perfectly competitive market, what can one farmer do to change the market price?
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E The firm cannot change the market price.
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6- Perfectly competitive firms will leave the industry that they are operating in if they _____
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are unable to cover their variable costs.
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7- If Harry's Blueberries, a perfectly competitive firm, shuts down in the short run, Harry must pay _____
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E. only the fixed cost of production.
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8- To achieve allocative efficiency, firms _____
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E. produce the output consumers value most.
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9- In the short run, a firm will produce a positive amount of output as long as _____
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A. price exceeds average variable cost.
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10- For a perfectly competitive firm, ____
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A. price equals marginal revenue at all output levels.
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11- Which of the following firms is most likely to be a perfectly competitive firm?
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D. a farm that grows soybeans
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12- A perfectly competitive firm is currently producing at a point where price is $10 and both marginal cost and average variable cost are $7. To maximize profit or minimize loss in the short run, this firm should _____
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B. increase its output.