Markets and competition Identical products, as well as a large number of buyers and sellers, are characteristics of aperfectly competitive market. In such markets, sellers of goods cannot influence the prevailing market price, giving them the role of price takers in the market.
A. True
B. False

Assume a firm's production process requires an average of 80 days to go from raw materials to finished products and another 40 days before the finished goods are sold. if the accounts receivable cycle is 70 days and the accounts payable cycle is 80 days, what would the operating cycle be?

Aproduction order quantity problem has a daily demand rate = 10 and a daily production rate = 50. the production order quantity for this problem is approximately 612 units. what is the average inventory for this problem?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do