In short-run equilibrium in a perfectly competitive market,

a. each firm earns an economic profit
b. each firm earns a normal profit
c. firms shut down if price exceeds average total cost
d. each firm takes consumers' marginal utility as given
e. peach firm takes the market price as given


E

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