Question 10.10  The non-discriminating pure monopolist must decrease price on all units of a product sold in order to sell more units.  This explains why          there are barriers to entry in pure monopoly.        a monopoly has a perfectly elastic demand curve.        marginal revenue is less than average revenue.        total revenues are greater than total costs at the profit-maximizing level of output.

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