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Transcribed Image Text:Over a recent family dinner, your Aunt Trudy expresses her disdain for price
discriminating monopoly businesses, to which you, having taken some economics
reply, "A perfect price discriminating monopoly may convert all of the consumer
surplus to monopoly profit, but at least it produces
O A. more output than a competitive industry would produce.
OB. the same output that a competitive industry would produce.
C. at the minimum of its average total cost (ATC) curve.
D. where its marginal cost (MC) curve is still declining.
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