Refer to the information below. If the firms' managers form a price -fixing cartel that maximizes the firms' total profit, what is the total economic profit made by all firms?

A small nation has three gasoline suppliers with a linear monthly market demand equal to: Q = 500,000 - 5P. Each firm's marginal cost (MC) and average total cost (ATC) curves are horizontal at $10,000 per month.

A) 3,375,000,000
B) $10,125,000,000
C) $575,000,000
D) $54,000,000


B) $10,125,000,000

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