Jay farnswood is the president of a local group of real estate agents. at their monthly luncheon meeting, farnswood stood and told his colleagues that he simply could not survive by charging the 5 percent commission rate and noted, "i don't know what the rest of you are going to do, but i am going to charge 6 percent commission on all my listings starting today."
farnswood's statements:

a. constitute price-fixing.
b. only reflect his intentions; there is no agreement to fix prices.
c. constitute an attempt to monopolize.
d. none of the above