The figure to the right shows the market demand for electricity and the average total cost and marginal cost of producing electricity for a utility company. Suppose the utility company is a regulated natural monopoly. If government regulators want to achieve economic efficiency, then they will regulate a price of $ —— per kilowatt hour. (Enter a numeric response using a real number rounded to two decimal places.)

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