The supply curve for a perfectly competitive market:
A. is the summation of all the average cost curves of each firm in a market.
B. is the summation of all the marginal cost curves, above the minimum of the average variable cost curve, from all the individual firms in the market.
C. is not related to the supply curves of individual firms.
D. is independent of price.
Answer: B
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