ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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Author: NEWNAN
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Tomas is the general manager for a local automated car wash. The market he operates is perfectly competitive. Every car wash in the area is charging $7 for a car wash, which is also the marginal cost per wash. What will happen to Tomas’ profits if he changes his price to $8. Why? What about the price of $5? What is his profit-maximizing price?
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Perfectly competitive market: It is a market structure where there exists a large number of buyers and a large number of sellers selling homogenous goods and services. The entry and exit in such a market structure are very easy.
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