A Profit-Maximizing Monopoly with a Straight-Line Demand Will Never Produce

Multiple Choice

A profit-maximizing monopoly with a straight-line demand will never produce when demand is inelastic because

A) price would be negative.
B) consumers would buy nothing.
C) revenue would be rising as cost falls.
D) marginal revenue would be negative and could not equal marginal cost.
E) there would be too few potential customers.