1. Consider the firm whose cost and demand data are graphed to the right. If this firm were to produce the allocatively efficient level of output it would:

1. earn profits approximately equal to 80.
2. earn profits approximately equal to 500.
3. earn profits approximately equal to 300.
4. incur losses approximately equal to 300.
5. allocatively efficiency requires that profits be zero.

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