This figure displays the choices and payoffs (company profits) of two music shops-MiiTunes and The Rock Shop. MiiTunes is an established business in the area deciding whether to charge its usual high prices or to charge very low prices, in the hopes that a new business will not be able to make a profit at such low prices. The Rock Shop is trying to decide whether or not it should enter the market and compete with MiiTunes.If MiiTunes and The Rock Shop are both in the music business and faced with the choices outlined in the figure shown, we can predict the outcome will be that:
A. MiiTunes charges high prices and The Rock Shop does not enter.
B. MiiTunes charges low prices and The Rock Shop enters.
C. MiiTunes charges low prices and The Rock Shop does not enter.
D. MiiTunes charges high prices and The Rock Shop enters.
Answer: D
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