Comparing a Perfectly Competitive Market to a Single-Price Monopoly with the Same

Multiple Choice

Comparing a perfectly competitive market to a single-price monopoly with the same costs,we see that

A) both markets are equally efficient in their use of resources.
B) the monopoly market always is more efficient in the use of resources.
C) the perfectly competitive market achieves efficiency in resource use while the monopoly market does not.
D) the monopoly market achieves efficiency in resource use while perfectly competitive market does not.
E) None of the above answers is correct because comparing a perfectly competitive market to a monopoly is impossible.