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Monopolistic competition refers to a market structure in which many sellers sell differentiated products and there is no barrier to entry. The profit-maximizing price and quantity of a monopolistically competitive firm determined at the intersection point of marginal revenue and marginal cost.

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In figure 1, point A shows the profit-maximizing price and quantity combination of the monopolistically competitive firm. At this point, the profit-maximizing price is $11 and the profit-maximizing quantity is 7 units.

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