A perfectly competitive firm faces a demand curve that is:
a. horizontal and perfectly inelastic.
b. horizontal and perfectly elastic.
c. vertical and perfectly inelastic

d. vertical and perfectly elastic.


b

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a. True b. False

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If a nation merges its currency with another nation to create a single currency, what must it give up?

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Employers near military bases are aware that wives generally accompany their servicemen husbands when they are transferred. When presented with nonservice-wife applicants and wives of servicemen, they hire the nonservice-wife applicants. This is an example of

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