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a) What does "perfect competition" mean? State a few of the underlying assumptions.

b) Explain in words why the demand curve a firm faces in a perfectly competitive market is horizontal.

c) For an individual firm in a perfectly competitive market, the marginal revenue, MR, is equal to the price, p. Why is that?

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