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If the XYZ Company can sell 4 units per week at $10 per unit and 5 units per week at $9 per unit, the marginal revenue of the fifth unit is $5
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True
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Because of the ability to influence price, a pure monopolist can increase price and increase volume of sales simultaneously.
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False
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In the long run monopolistically competitive firms make normal profits because they are forced to operate at the minimum point of their average total cost curve.
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False
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The demand curve of a monopolistically competitive producer is less elastic than that of a purely competitive producer.
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True
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The economic profits earned by monopolistically competitive sellers are zero in the long run.
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True
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The monopolistically competitive seller maximizes profits by equating price and marginal cost.
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False
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If three or four homogenous oligopolists collude, the resulting price and production outcomes will be similar to those of pure monopoly.
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True
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Although individual purely competitive firms can influence the price of their product, these firms as a group cannot influence market price.
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False
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In a purely competitive industry, competition center more on advertising and sales promotion than on price.
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False
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Generally speaking, the larger the number of firms in an oligopolistic industry, the more difficult it is for those firms to collude.
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True