If a profit-maximizing firm in a perfectly competitive market is currently producing the output where (price - average variable cost) > average fixed cost, the firm is:
A. making a positive economic profit.
B. making a zero economic profit.
C. suffering an economic loss.
D. None of these
Answer: A
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