Consider the revenue and cost conditions for a monopolist that are depicted in the figure below. a.
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a. What is this producer's profit-maximizing (or loss-minimizing) output?
b. What are the firm's economic profits (or losses)?
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MC ATC p 31 30 G 26 20 MR 0 1.0 1.3 Output (millions of units per month)
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