Demand and marginal revenue curves are downward-sloping for monopolistically competitive firms because
A. product differentiation allows each firm some degree of monopoly power.
B. there are a few large firms in the industry and they each act as a monopolist.
C. mutual interdependence among all firms in the industry leads to collusion.
D. each firm must take the market price as given.
Answer: A
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