3. Remember that free entry means that profits will be zero, which
means that Price = Average Total Cost. Since the firm
faces a downward sloping demand curve and we have no reason to
think it is a perfect price discriminator Marginal Revenue must be less than Price and since MR = MC, MC must be below price. The graph to the
right, showing a monopolistically competitive firm in long run
equilibrium illustrates this answer.
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