A monopolistically competitive firm maximizes profit like any other firm, it produces where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Graphically this is shown to the right.

   This graph doesn't show the ATC curve so we can't see if the firm is profitable or not, however from our assumption that the industry is characterized by free entry, we have to assume that long run profits are zero.

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