The vertical axis on the two graphs is the same. Market price determined by the interaction of industry supply and demand is the same market price the firm sees as its demand curve.

   The horizontal axes, while both measure quantity, are to very different scales. The left one represents output by a single firm, the right one output by the entire industry, thousands of times greater since there are thousands of firms.

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