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One has to specify the market environment in which a firm functions. Identify the features of a perfectly competitive market:

(A) The market consists of a large number of buyers and sellers

(B) Each firm produces and sells a heterogeneous product.

(C) Entry into the market as well as exit from the market are free for firms.

(D) Perfect Information.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

A perfectly competitive market has a large number of buyers and sellers, free entry and exit, perfect information, and a homogeneous (identical) product. Statement (B) is wrong because firms sell a homogeneous, not heterogeneous, product. Hence (A), (C) and (D) only.

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