Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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Which of the following statements is FALSE? 

From society's perspective, perfect competition market structure is always preferred to the monopoly market structure. 

Single-price monopoly produces an inefficient outcome compared to the perfect competition outcome. 

A monopoly that can exercise perfect price discrimination produces an efficient outcome for society. 

The single-price monopoly will produce less than both the perfectly competitive outcome and the monopolist that can exercise perfect price discrimination. 

Consumers always lose out under monopoly. 

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Practice Question: Single-Price Monopolist 2

Ronnie's Pistachios is the only shop in town.Its demand, marginal revenue and marginal cost curves are in the graph below. 
a) Calculate the monopoly outcome, average revenue for the monopolist and the perfect competition outcome. 
b) Calculate the surplus in the monopoly outcome.  

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The graph above represents a typical monopoly. Which price and quantity combination represents the perfect competition outcome? 

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Practice: Single-Price Monopolist 2

Ronnie's Pistachios is the only shop in town. Its demand, marginal revenue and marginal cost curves are in the graph below. 

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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