In a perfectly competitive market, the market supply curve is

a. the marginal cost curve above average total cost for a representative firm.
b. the horizontal sum of all the individual firms' supply curves.
c. the vertical sum of all the individual firms' supply curves.
d. always a horizontal line.


b

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