As a group, oligopolists would always earn the highest profit if they would

a. produce the perfectly competitive quantity of output.
b. produce more than the perfectly competitive quantity of output.
c. charge the same price that a monopolist would charge if the market were a monopoly.
d. operate according to their own individual self-interests.


c

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