A firm operating in a “Perfectly Competitive Market” has “No Market Power,” which implies that the firm: 1) would lose all its customers if it attempted to increase price above the prevailing market price 2) must decrease its price in order to increase the quantity of output sold 3) faces a “horizontal demand curve” for its output 4) more than one (perhaps all) of the above answers is correct
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