Consider a firm with constant marginal costs. Which of the following statements is correct regarding its isoprofit curves? Select one: a. Each isoprofit curve depicts the firm’s profit for different outputs for a given price of the output good. b. The isoprofit curves are upward-sloping. c. The isoprofit curves cannot cross. d. The higher the price the higher the profit, so constant profits imply constant prices.

Consider a firm with constant marginal costs. Which of the following statements is correct regarding its isoprofit curves? Select one: a. Each isoprofit curve depicts the firm’s profit for different outputs for a given price of the output good. b. The isoprofit curves are upward-sloping. c. The isoprofit curves cannot cross. d. The higher the price the higher the profit, so constant profits imply constant prices.

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